Ms Gloria Akuffo, a member of the incoming government’s transition team responsible for legal affairs, says the Mahama-led government presided over many wrongs, posing a daunting task for the NPP government to surmount.
Many Ghanaians reposed high confidence in the Akufo-Addo-led government to deliver on their many promises. But assessing the performance of the outgoing government, Ms. Akuffo says a lot of things need to be done if the NPP would achieve its promises to Ghanaians.
‘The battle is the Lord’s’ was the catchphrase of the New Patriotic Party during years of campaigning which paid off eventually on December 9 when the party’s presidential candidate was declared winner of the December 7 general elections.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo won the presidential election with 5,716,026 representing 53.85% of the total votes cast, beating off stiff competition from the incumbent president, John Mahama who had 4, 713,277 representing 44.40 percent.
At a thanksgiving service at the Accra Sports Stadium by the NPP on Sunday, Ms Gloria Akuffo told TV3’s Nana Aduah, “the battle did not end at the end of the elections; indeed the battle has just began”.
The transition team began its work on Wednesday December 14 prior to the handing over of power on January 7, 2017, but Ms. Akuffo analysed, “there are a lot of things to be done, too many things have gone wrong.”
Though she did not mention exactly things that have gone wrong, this is what she said of the work ahead: “In my life I have realized renovation is more difficult than to start from the beginning. Indeed there is a lot more to be done”.
Prof. Mike Ocquaye, who has been tipped as the next Speaker of Parliament, early on told TV3 the NPP is “humbled by the fact that there is work ahead”.
Nonetheless, he said, the party has more people capable of surmounting whatever challenge that is ahead of them.
Meanwhile, Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at the Institute of Local Government Studies (ILGS), Dr. Eric Oduro Osae has charged ministers who would be appointed to listen to the chief directors in their respective ministries who have the technical expertise, which he identified as the weak point of the outoing administration.
Source: 3news
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Oyiwa, this is exactly what many of us anticipated. I knew after we have voted for them they would come and say because of the mess created by ndc they would find it difficult redeeming the numerous promises they made to Ghanaians. Many of us saw the infrastructural development that the Mahama government did, so npp need to also find a way of redeeming all the promises they made to Ghanaians. You haven't even assume office yet, but you already blaming someone for your failures. Start work and lets see what you can do and stop the blame game. If you think ndc had made a mess and for that matter Ghanaians need to bear with you, then it would be appropriate to cut your pay to half, then all of us would understand that you are ready to do something and therefore bear with you. You are not going to be driving V8 vehicles and come and tell us that ndc messed up.
The Kufour Administrationccampaigned zero tolerance for corruption but when corruption issues were brought to him he Stated that corruption started from Adam and he is not the one to stop it. I can go on and on listing many more. Be careful all the wrongs in a President Kufuor Administration is not repeated in a Nana Addo Administration. Ghanaians are watching with ***barred word*** attention from 7th January 2017.
WITH YOUR FACE LIKE THAT OF A RHINOCEROS, WHAT BETTER THING CAN YOU POSSIBLY SAY ABOUT THIS GOVERNMENT,,, AND BY THE WAY,, IS THAT AN ADMISSION OF FAILURE??? OTHERWISE WHAT COULD BE TERRIBLY WRONG WITH A MINORITY VOTING A 73 YEAR OLD VEGETABLE AS PRESIDENT ELECT??? HOW MANY GHANAIANS DO YOU THINK EXPECTS ANYTHING OTHER THAN THOSE EXCUSES???? FOR ALL WE KNOW,,,, THIS POSTURING IS ONLY A PREDISPOSITION OF FAILURE... AND YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST TO MANIFEST IT,,, OTHERS HAVE,,,, AND WE ARE STILL COUNTING... AND VERY SOON,,, YOUR LEADER WHO IS THE FATHER OF ALL LIES WILL CAME AND REAFFIRM THIS.