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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Dream Big. Nana Tells Mills

THE NEW PATRIOTIC Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo, has described President Atta Mills as a 'confused' person who is presiding over a visionless, corrupt and inefficient government which doesn't bring hope to the future of Ghana.

Nana Akufo-Addo stated: 'Small minds with little visions don't build nations', adding that 'he is confident that with the right leadership, Ghana can be compared to the leading countries of the world.'

He said, 'The kind of future that the Ghanaian people aspire to cannot be attained by this visionless, incompetent and mediocre NDC government that is currently in office', adding that 'our energies have to be directed towards building a forward moving and progressive Ghana with an economy that can provide all our people with jobs, jobs and jobs.'

Nana Akufo Addo was addressing a huge gathering of party members and students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi on Monday evening to mark the 10 th anniversary of the KNUST branch of the Tertiary Education Confederacy Network of the NPP (TESCON) at the Great Hall.

He has therefore tasked the youth of the country to offer unflinching support to the NPP which he described as the 'best political party on the African continent' to unseat the NDC in the coming polls to take the country to the Promised Land.

As president, the former Foreign Affairs Minister in the Kufuor administration said, he would implement effective policies and mechanisms that would transform the country into a first world country, stressing, 'If the Asians, Japanese, Chinese and Malaysians could do it, Ghanaians could equally do it.'

He reiterated his determination to extend the free basic education brought by the President Kufuor regime to the senior high school level if he became the president, adding, Ghana would be transformed from a raw material-producing economy into a modern industrialized value-added economy during his presidency.

He jabbed his critics who claimed his vision was beyond the country, reminding them that 'the world today belongs to those who can think big, act big and do big things'.

'I know that when one throws a challenge like this, small minds with little visions will quickly say that it is just big talk, but the truth is that the world was not built by small minds with little vision,' he said.

He challenged the students to think big and also vote for leaders who had shown that they thought and acted big, adding that 'the NPP has shown that it is the only political force that has that big vision for Ghana.'

For his vision for the country to be realized, the NPP presidential candidate narrated that education would occupy the centre stage of his administration, stressing, Ghana would overcome the problems that had now gripped the country owing to bad leadership.

He said, 'We are not going to build a Ghana where some are left behind because their parents do not have the means. That is gross social injustice and we intend to cure that injustice by providing all our people with access to free, quality education.'

Nana Akufo-Addo noted that the NDC's 'Better Ghana Agenda' was not real, promising to make the 'Better Ghana' mantra a reality by bettering the lives of the citizenry when he was elected president in 2012.

The NPP presidential candidate stressed that the party needed to win the 2012 elections in order to wrest the country from the hands of 'incompetence, corruption and confusion' to make the people enjoy life.

The NPP, he pointed out, was not after political power to amass wealth and lord it over the electorate who gave them their mandate, but to serve and transform the country for the populace to benefit.

He said the vision of the NPP 'is development of Ghana in freedom,' noting that this could never be achieved unless the people gave the NPP their mandate to run the affairs of the country.

Among the NPP bigwigs that graced the event were former Chief of Staff Kwadwo Mpiani, NPP General Secretary Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie, Alberta Owusu, Patricia Appiagyei, F.F. Anto and Kwabena Agyapong.