NDC’s 18 Months Is Better Than NPP’s First 4years

Mr. Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa, a Deputy Minister for Information


Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, flagbearer for the New Patriotic Party in 2012 is reported to have said that President Mills will last for only a term because of how ‘bad’ he is performing in his administration.

Interacting with the media in Takoradi during his campaign trip, he added that the Atta Mills government has no better policies for Ghanaians and so “they will show them the way out in 2012”.

Reacting to this in an interview with PeaceFM News, Mr. Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa, a Deputy Minister for Information stated that “it is clear Nana has started with his campaign and it is normal for him to make such statements.” However, he does not agree with his assertions because it is just 18 months of the work and even that, the President has done a lot compared to the first 4 years of the NPP’s rule.

He enumerated on the distribution of free School Uniforms and Exercise books, reduction in inflation, stabilization of the currency, as some of the achievements of the Mills’ government.

“You cannot say therefore that the president has done nothing. The President wants to ensure that everybody gets a share of the National Cake,” Okudjeto Ablakwa said.

Reacting to what the Deputy Minister said, Mr. Boakye Agyarko, spokesperson for Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, stated that “the distribution of free school uniforms and exercise books that the Minister is talking about has not been extended to all schools.”

“I travel a lot to remote areas in the country but I have not come across any of the things he is saying in the schools, meaning that they have not gotten anywhere with that project,” he said.

He added that “what Nana said is a reflection of what he has seen and what Ghanaians are saying; so has the right to say it.”

Source: Rebecca Quaye/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana Institute of Journalism


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