According to the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has a message for Ghanaians ahead of the 2024 general elections.
This comes after the government’s list of accomplishments that he presented over the weekend.
Speaking on Saturday, June 10, at the NPP International Women’s Conference in London, Dr. Bawumia noted that the NPP government, since taking office in 2017, has done incredibly well with many historic achievements, despite the global factors that have hit several economies around the world in the past three years. She did, however, acknowledge that more needs to be done.
Former Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen, who wants to be the NPP’s flagbearer, recently infuriated party supporters by saying in public that the party does not have a message for the 2024 elections.
The Vice President’s lengthy speech in London, which was applauded by party members, is seen as response.
“We have not had it all rosy and delivered everything that we set out to do from our day of initiation into office. But the setbacks notwithstanding, we have produced a solid track record of achievements,” Dr. Bawumia noted, as he highlighted global and domestic factors which have affected the country recently.
Among others, the Vice President listed high unemployment, Dumsor for 4 years, a virtually collapsed National Health Insurance system, a nearly collapsed national ambulance system, freeze on public sector employment, an almost collapsed banking sector, massive annual increases in utility bills, poor economic indicators, low agricultural growth, low industry growth, cancellation of teacher and nursing training allowances, as well as a huge burden of paying $1billion dollars annually for a take-or-pay excess energy capacity deal negotiated by the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
“Ladies and Gentlemen, when you look at this tall list of achievements, one cannot but admit that they are monumental. Let nobody tell you that we don’t have a message for 2024,” said Dr. Bawumia.
“I must hasten to add that this does not mean we have done everything we intended to do or ought to have done. There is clearly a lot more to do and we will work hard to do more.”
According to Dr. Bawumia, in order to fully appreciate the government’s efforts, it is crucial to remember the situation of the nation, the problems it inherited, and the remedies it has proposed to deal with these problems.
