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Mahama has failed Northerners - Bawumia

"The NPP is the party that you can trust to build the economy that will provide jobs for our young ones, prioritise their education and training and invest enough resources, without any attempt to steal it", Dr. Bawumia said.

 

Speaking at Nyohini, in the Tamale South Constituency, Dr. Bawumia said “My elders, my brothers, my sisters, in 2008 and 2012, we were told by the NDC that because John Mahama was a Northerner, we should vote for him. Indeed, John Mahama himself asked the people of the North to vote for him because he was from the North.

“But after eight years, the question is, what has John Mahama and the NDC done for the people of the North? What we have witnessed is the unprecedented stealing in the name of Northerners and Northern development through SADA and unbearable hardships. The failure to pay attention to agriculture and irrigation, etc. have all adversely affected the north. What this shows is that just saying you are a northerner is not enough”, he added.

According to him, social intervention programmes that the NPP began under its tenure have all virtually collapsed under the NDC.

“Under the NPP, we created social intervention schemes like the NHIS, Free Maternal Care programme, School feeding etc. But today what do we see? Despite having ten times more money than any government has had, these programmes, which millions of Northerners and Ghanaians in general were benefitting from, have virtually collapsed. The Teacher Trainee and Nursing Trainee Allowances which allowed poor students to become Teachers and Nurses, have also today been cancelled and nowhere is the effect of this cancellation felt more, than the North," Dr. Bawumia added.

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He therefore called on the people to vote for the NPP, adding that “The NPP is the party that you can trust to build the economy that will provide jobs for our young ones, prioritise their education and training and invest enough resources, without any attempt to steal it, in developing the North and making the lives of the people better. It is the NPP that can make NHIS and other social programmes work again to benefit the people of Ghana and this is why I am urging you to vote for Nana Akufo-Addo."

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