If the people of Damongo were to cast the presidential
vote yesterday (21 May, 2011), Nana Akuffo Addo would have gotten an upper hand
in the district.
As part of the N. P. P’s Presidential Candidate Nana
Akuffo Addo’s Hope Restoration Tour, the capital of West Gonja District,
Damongo saw, an incredible prospect when all activities were halt, just to
welcome Nana Akuffo Addo and his running
mate Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia.
The two with other political leaders including, N.P.
P. National Women's Organizer Madam Otiko DJaba, former Northern Regional Minister
Alhaji Mustahpa Iddrisu and the
aspiring M. P for West Gonja District
Hon Albert Kassim Dewura were in Damongo to pay a courtesy call on the
Yagbonwura the King of Gonja land.
As the saying goes, make hay whiles the sun shine, Nana
has taken the good opportunity, to brief
out his campaign message to party
sympathizers.
In Ghana, no politician speaks without the issues of
the opponent left out. Nana in his delivery, said, President John Evans Atta
Mills have made vague promises to
Ghanaians that he was not able to fulfill.
However, unfortunately, for Ghanaians, what the
Kufour Administration has done in the past years has also been destroyed; he
referred to the Ghana Educational
System and the National Health Insurance Scheme which has fully been
deteriorated.
He also made mention of how the Atta Mills government
promise to put money into the pocket of Ghanaians but created holes in their
pockets instead.
Moreover, Nana cannot sit down without making his
agenda known to the audience; he stated that, he has three important things to
give to Ghanaians if given the presidential mandate. Better Educational
systems, job creation and transparent Government were his concrete offers for
Ghanaians.
The Ghanaian educational system is his priority, he
promised of making the educational system flexible to all and sundry to be enroll
into. He promised to make the Senior
High Education free for Ghanaians. As to how he will achieve it, he has finally
revealed that, the measures the Kufour Administration used to achieve the
success of the NHIS, will also be used to make the
free S. H. S possible.
Nana Addo said, he is not going to tolerate any woyome's scandal in his government but there is going to be clean, fair and transparent
administration. He therefore pleaded with people of Damongo to vote for him in
the 2012 December elections in order to make life easier and better for them.
Nonetheless, His running mate, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia,
said the N. P. P ticket is a reflection of National Unity, that is Christians
and Muslims will become one to give a better ruling to Ghana.
He expressed bitterly about how the NDC Government have decided to manage the economy
with propaganda. ‘’ As knowledgeable in
managing the economy, we are moving Ghana from ‘Woyomisation’ to ‘
Jobilization’. We make sure we create a stable economy and a good environment,
for everybody to work and be happy” he said.
Dr. Bawumia said, Ghanaians are not ready for a
government that creates better condition for a few, but government that create
a better condition for all, and the NPP government is ready to give all Ghanaians
a better living condition.
Nana Akuffo
Addo and his running mate Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia then moved ahead with the
district tour, to visit the Damongo Senior High School and a nearby community
called Larabanga.
Shallom Lumor
