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The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has campaigned in the Ablekuma Central Constituency, as part of a four-day tour of the Greater Accra Region.

Nana Akufo-Addo made surprise visits to Sabon Zongo and Abossey Okai on Friday, where he interacted with residents and business owners.  

This was contained in a press statement from the party.
While interacting with the Sarkin Zongo, Chief Issah Wanzam and residents of Sabon Zongo, the NPP flag bearer reaffirmed his commitment to establishing a Zongo Development Fund aimed at solving the basic infrastructure problems existing in Zongo communities across the country.

He noted that what was needed in Ghana now is a President who would work to bring jobs to the teeming masses of unemployed youth, some of whom are resident there. 

“This is what Nana Akufo-Addo is going to do when you elect him as President,” he said. 

The NPP flag bearer added that, “I am not seeking the high office of this land because I want to steal your money and line my pockets with the nation’s resources. I am not coming into office for the well-being of my wife and my family. No! I am coming to do a job for Ghana and for Ghanaians. Have confidence in me, and vote for me this year, because I will not disappoint you.”

Concerning the propaganda making the rounds in Zongo communities that an Akufo-Addo-led NPP government would reintroduce the Aliens’ Compliance Order of 1969, he stated that “it is a complete, vicious fabrication”.

According to him, when President Kufuor was in office from 2001 to 2009, he served as the Attorney General and Minister for Justice for two years, and could say with confidence that such a policy was never initiated within the eight-year period.

Visit to Abossey Okai

At Abossey Okai, also in the Ablekuma Central Constituency, Nana Akufo-Addo assured spare parts dealers  as well as Ghanaian entrepreneurs and small business owners that his government, God willing, from January 2017, would provide a conducive and enabling business environment needed for their businesses to flourish. 

With the major concerns of business owners at Abossey Okai being the unstable nature of Ghana’s currency, high interest rate charges from banks, as well as high import duties at the ports, they told the NPP flag bearer that those problems posed serious challenges to the survival of their businesses.

“Because of high import duties, we are forced to transfer this cost onto our customers. Things are very difficult in Ghana at the moment, and as such people do not even patronise our wares any more. Abossey Okai of all places, which used to be a bustling business hub, is not the same anymore. How can we survive?” a spare parts dealer asked.

Addressing separate gatherings at the well-known spare parts neighbourhood, the NPP flag bearer said “we in the NPP are coming to change Ghana and ensure that our monetary system is solid, so that we can have a stable currency. When this happens, you, as business people, and your businesses will grow”.  

However, to ensure that this happens, Nana Akufo-Addo appealed to the thousands of businessmen and women at Abossey Okai to support his bid for election in this year’s polls, stating, “I need your support. Have confidence in me, and I assure you that I will never disappoint you.”

The Policy Advisor to the NPP flag bearer, Boakye Agyarko, who accompanied Nana Akufo-Addo on his visit to Abossey Okai, stated that no government in Ghana’s history had had more resources from loans and taxes than the current Mahama government. Ghana, he said, should, therefore, not find herself in the precarious situation she is in now.