President Akufo-Addo says his expectation in the 2024 general elections is for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to break the 8-year jinx and make history as the first political party to be retained in office after 8 years in office.
He said Ghanaians will witness either the changing of power from one party to another, as we have seen on three separate occasions in the 4th Republic, or have the current government retain power.
He said his interest or preference is public knowledge, and he would want the NPP to win.
The President was speaking at the 2023 Ghana Bar Association Conference (Today, Monday, September 11, 2023) which is currently underway in Cape Coast.
”Next year, we will be going to the polls, for the ninth time in the 4th republic, to elect a new President and new Members of Parliament. We will, in the results of those polls, witness either the changing of power from one political party to another, as we have done on three (3) separate occasions in the 4th republic, or the breaking of the right, something that has never happened before in the 4th republic. I am sure I do not need to tell you what my preference is. It is public knowledge.”
According to the President, ”What is important, however, is that the Ghanaian people have demonstrated that they are fully conversant with the process of peaceful democratic transitions, and need no lessons in the exercise of their democratic rights. Maintaining high standards and integrity in public life is key to extending association with multiparty democracy.”
He went ahead to assert that ensuring high standards and integrity in public life has its own impact on the image of our nation and our ability to attract the substantial amounts of investment, foreign and domestic, needed to help grow our economy”.
He added that ”we will attract the requisite investments if we continue to hold ourselves as a haven of peace, security and stability; and if we continue to show that we are a country where the separation of powers is real, and the principles of democratic accountability and respect for the rule of law, individual liberties and human rights are firmly entrenched in our body politic”.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
