The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential
Candidate has wondered why President John Mahama would commute to campaign
grounds with a helicopter despite boasting of massive infrastructural
development.Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said Ghana’s road network is not
in a good condition yet the National Democratic Congress (NDC) touts it as an
area it has done well.
Addressing a news conference in Kumasi Wednesday,
he said ‘the person is not using the road but uses a helicopter and when we
speak insults are hurled at you,’ he said.
President Mahama has said he
has expanded Ghana’s road network by constructing the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange,
the ongoing Kasoa Interchange as well as other roads.
The President has
commissioned both interchanges. He would also be commissioning the Greater Accra
Regional Hospital, formerly Ridge Hospital on Wednesday.
Nana Akufo-Addo
who is the President’s main contender in the presidential election which is six
days away believes the NDC has done less considering the resources at its
disposal.
'We are told of an unprecedented infrastructural development
yet they are not visible everywhere we go,' he said.
According to him, an
NPP government would improve the condition of existing projects to ensure they
meet international standard.
Nana Akufo-Addo promised he would complete
the Eastern and Western Railway Corridor to connect Accra to
Kumasi.
‘This is a major infrastructural project we want to undertake in
few weeks time to come,’ he added.
He also condemned all forms of
language aimed at inciting tribal allegiance ahead of the polls.
While
campaigning at Lawra in the Upper West Region, President Mahama had said the NPP
would discriminate against its Vice Presidential Candidate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia
when the time comes for him to head the party.
“Sometimes I feel sad when
I see some of our Northern brothers running and also doing this. They will use
you and dump you. Let anything happen today and let our brother Bawumia say he
is standing for President in NPP. They will never give it to him I can assure
you,” he said.
Nana Akufo-Addo said such statements would not bring the
development and progress Ghanaians want.
‘We all come from different
parts of the country, but we are all Ghanaians,’ he said, adding the hardship in
the economy affects everybody.
‘The language of a division is a politics
of yesterday. The unity of our nation is absolutely key and it doesn’t matter,’
he added. |
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