The 2016 vice presidential candidate of the New
Patriotic Party, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, says Ghanaians no longer want a
‘dead goat’ for a President – a President who is and will remain indifferent to
their hardships and sufferings they go through on a daily
basis.Addressing thousands and thousands of residents of Aflao, who
turned up at the NPP’s Volta Regional Rally, on Sunday, November 20, 2016, Dr.
Bawumia stated that the government of President Mahama has worsened the plight
of the ordinary Ghanaian, leaving in its wake an unprecedented level of
unemployment.
Nana Akufo-Addo’s running mate indicated that with more
revenue, in the form of loans and taxes, than all governments in Ghana’s history
put together, the government of President Mahama has been unable to pay nursing
and teacher training allowances, as well as several months of NHIS claims owed
hospitals.
“They cannot pay for School Feeding, they cannot pay for Mass
Cocoa Spraying. The National Youth Employment Programme has collapsed under
their watch and they cannot pay contractors. That is why we are saying they are
an incompetent government,” he said.
According to Dr. Bawumia, with
Ghanaians desperately yearning for their problems to be solved, “he (President
Mahama) tells us he’s not a magician. He says he’s not a magician to solve the
problem of unemployment. But, he’s a very good magician when it comes to the
disappearance of Ghana’s money under create, loot and share schemes like SADA,
Woyome, Ameri, Karpower, GYEEDA, Waterville, ISOFOTON, etc.”
He
continued, “President Mahama is a very good magician at making our money
disappear. We want change. We want to elect a new President. We don’t want a
dead goat as a president. A dead goat is a dead goat, whether in Ashanti, Volta,
Greater Accra, Brong Ahafo, Eastern, Upper West, Upper East, Western, Central or
Northern. We don’t want to vote for a dead goat.”
Dr. Bawumia was
confident that the people of Ghana “don’t want to vote for a president who
cannot think far. Of what use is a president who cannot think far be to this
country? We want a farsighted President. We don’t want to vote for a president
whose government is corrupt, and we definitely don’t want to vote for an
incompetent President.”
He assured the people of the Volta Region that
“in 18 days’ time a new Ghana will be born, and we will begin to see the
restoration of a leadership of vision, integrity and incorruptibility under Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. In 18 days’ time, we will have a new President-Elect of
the Republic of Ghana. We will replace this corrupt and incompetent government
of President Mahama.”
Dr. Bawumia added that “in 18 days’ time, you will
begin to see the process of the restoration of the teacher training and nursing
allowances. We will begin the process of transformation of the economy which
brings down unemployment and brings jobs to our people.”
He therefore
urged residents of Aflao and the populace of the Volta Region to unite and
ignore the tribal and ethnocentric politics being waged by President
Mahama.
“Let us all come together as one country, and let us not allow
President Mahama to divide us. He has no message, he has lost the argument. You
cannot govern with propaganda and tribalism. Away with tribalism and let’s get
together with unity under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,” he
appealed.
Thanking the people of Aflao who turned out in their thousands
to attend the rally, Dr. Bawumia stated that “from what I am seeing today, I can
see why some people are panicking. I can see why they are making nonsensical
statements, and I can see why, Insha Allah, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will be
the next President of Ghana.” |
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