Beginning today, founder and leader of the
United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai aka Odike, will embark on a
rigorous political campaign to win votes for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), led
by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.He lambasted the National Democratic
Congress (NDC) administration for failing to fulfill its numerous enticing
campaign promises in 2012, urging all UPP members to also campaign for the NPP
and Nana Akufo-Addo.
Odike, with a grim face, vowed to play leading roles
that would ensure that the current Mahama administration is ousted from
political office on December 7.
The UPP leader was speaking at a
well-attended press conference held in Kumasi on Monday where the party
officially threw its weight behind the NPP ahead of the upcoming
polls.
Nana Will Win
He said he had travelled throughout the
country to campaign and that the wind of change is blowing all over Ghana,
claiming that nothing can stop Nana Akufo-Addo from winning the presidential
election.
Odike explained that he had decided to throw his weight behind
Nana Akufo-Addo because “he is the most experienced, competent and visionary
candidate among the presidential candidates.”
Target
Regions
Odike, who is a business mogul with international links, stated
that his political campaign would mainly focus on the three Northern Regions and
the Brong-Ahafo Region.
According to him, he would dedicate his time and
resources to pinpoint all the rot and failures in the NDC government to the
people in these regions to reduce the NDC’s votes.
Mahama’s
Failures
Odike said President Mahama would be remembered for collapsing
Ghana’s economy, deepening hardship, increasing water and power tariffs and
collapsing businesses with his bad policies.
He said increasing lending
rate, collapsing the agricultural sector, increasing inflation, increasing cost
of living and making life extremely difficult for Ghanaians, would be President
Mahama’s legacies.
Odike noted that the NDC government has done nothing
to better the lives of the citizenry since it assumed the leadership of the
state eight years ago, stressing the need for the NDC to be kicked out of
office.
The UPP described the construction of Community Day schools by
the NDC administration as a misplaced priority, noting that the government used
the project to steal state funds with bloated contract figures.
Mahama
Rejected
Odike stated that the majority of Ghanaians and even the
international community do not support the NDC’s third term bid after the NDC
had mismanaged the affairs of the country.
Mr Akwasi Addai, who was once
close to President Mahama, said the Ghanaian leader is aware that the NDC would
lose the impending elections, indicating that nothing could save it from
defeat.
According to him, President Mahama is desperate to hang onto
power after collapsing the country’s economy, indicating that nothing can stop
an NPP victory this year.
Warning To EC
He gave the Electoral
Commission (EC) a one-week ultimatum to refrain from all diabolical plans of
rigging the polls for the NDC else he would come out boldly to expose any such
deals.
According to Odike, the elections would be held only on December
7, stressing that any attempt by the EC to extend the election date would be
vehemently rejected.
More Support
Odike announced that he was
currently in talks with three other political parties to also declare their
unflinching support for the NPP, indicating that he would be a torn in the flesh
of the NDC from now to December 7.
Wontumi Welcomes Odike
NPP
Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako aka Wontumi, who was at the
event, welcomed Odike and all the UPP members, urging them to work hard to
ensure victory for the NPP. |
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