"We keep our promises" - Nana Addo assures Ghanaian youth

The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is urging the teeming masses of Ghanaian youth, who have become disillusioned under the current John Mahama-led NDC government, not to lose hope because “change is on its way”, God-willing from 2017, in the form of an Akufo-Addo government.

Delivering a speech at the 15th anniversary celebration of the Tertiary Students Confedracy (TESCON) held at the Mensah Sarbah Hall on Wednesday, November 4, 2015, Nana Akufo-Addo called on the youth to repose their confidence in the NPP, ahead of the 2016 elections, because of the party’s solid track record in delivering on its promises, as seen from 2001 to 2009.

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“I said that if we won, we would repeal the infamous Criminal Libel Law; we would abolish the notorious cash and carry policy in our healthcare system; and we would in the next decade take Ghana from a poor to a middle income status. The NPP in power realised each one of these promises. We repealed the Criminal Libel Law. We abolished cash and carry and introduced the National Health Insurance Scheme. And by 2009, when we left office, Ghana was a middle income country” he said.

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“We keep our promises,” he said, to a rousing applause from the gathering primarily made up students from the University of Ghana.

With the battle for votes in 2016 greater among the youth, many of whom will be first time voters and disappointed NDC voters, the NPP flagbearer explained that the NPP Youth Wing has a big responsibility to swing a decisive victory the party’s way.

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This, he explained, can be realised through sending the party’s message of hope to every household, as the goal of an Akufo-Addo government will be “to build a free and prosperous society of opportunities where every Ghanaian child, no matter the circumstances of his or her birth, has an equal chance to strive to build a happy and dignified life.”