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The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has appealed to members of the party not to be dispirited about the internal happenings within the NPP, but rather focus on campaigning against the abysmal and disastrous Mahama-led NDC administration, which has plunged the nation into economic hardships.

 

Whilst the leadership of the party is doing its best to bring sanity and peace within the NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo urged members of the party, especially those in the diaspora, not to “inflame the situation from afar”, but rather “spend our energies against the disastrous Mahama NDC administration.”

 

According to the NPP flagbearer, some of the reports about the happenings within the NPP are exaggerated, adding that the party now has a good reason to believe that a lot of it is being instigated from outside the party.

 

“If we make a determined effort to stick together, we will come out strong. And I ask you to pray for our party, and support the work of its organs, the National Disciplinary Committee, the Council of Elders, the National Executive Committee, the National Council and the Regional and Constituency Executive organs. They are manned by very responsible people and I have no doubt that they do their best for all of us,” he said.

 

He urged all NPP members to be to be minded about the fact that “we are the heirs of the noblest political tradition in Ghanaian politics, and the most durable. Our tradition has survived the deaths, detentions and exiles of the First Republic. It has survived the various military takeovers of our history. Out of it all, it has emerged as the most formidable political party in our country with the clearest message of freedom, progress and prosperity.”

 

He continued, “And in the 8 year government of John Agyekum Kufuor, it has given our country the best government in the Fourth Republic, if not in the entire history of Ghana. We are not about to throw away this proud heritage, and no machinations are going to weaken us.”

The 2016 election, according to Nana Akufo-Addo, is there for the NPP to win, adding that the NDC government has nothing to campaign on.

 

“The President can go on shouting that they have not borrowed too much, it will not change the fact that Ghana is drowning in debt; I notice they no longer talk about corruption….. I suspect they know they will choke on the word; they will resort to their known lies, divisive politics, and personal attacks. I think Ghanaians have seen through such things now,” he maintained.

 

The NPP flagbearer will return to Ghana on Monday, November 30, 2015.