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Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in the summary of the party’s 2020 manifesto recounted that the Akufo-Addo government has fulfilled at least 80 per cent of its manifesto promises prior to the 2016 general election.

According to him, the Akufo-Addo government inherited a messed economy under the previous NDC government run by former President John Dramani Mahama, characterised with dumsor, collapsing NHIS including a collapsing the banking sector.

“Of course, we are all reminded from the very beginning, the mess that this government inherited from the mismanagement of the economy under the previous government with dumsor, collapsing NHIS, and so on; it was a mess including a collapsing banking sector and financing sector,” he reminisced.

Vice President Dr Bawumia indicated that the Akufo-Addo government went ahead to fix the broken economy as promised when it took over the government and invested in critical and national infrastructure and made the government machinery work.

“So, we promised we will fix this and we proceeded to fix the broken the economy, invest in critical and national infrastructure, and make the government machinery work," he announced at Cape Coast during the launch of the party’s 2020 manifesto.

He mentioned that the 2020 manifesto with the theme “leadership in service; protecting our progress and transforming Ghana for all” is organized in three segments with the first one talking the accounting section of the manifesto.

“In this section, we list all the achievements that we have actually chalked in our three and a half years in every sector; 17 sectors in all, and we have listed all the achievements. They are 289 separate promised categories and we have listed over 300 hundred achievements that we have in three and a half years,” he said.

“And so when you read the manifesto, you will see that we have fulfilled at least 80 per cent of our promises, that is massive for any government in its first term and when you look at these achievements, you would realize that sector by sector, we have really performed better, much better than the previous NDC government. That is the issue of accounting for our progress,” he claimed.

He added that “the second part deals with the consolidation of our progress, having made so much progress, we want to consolidate that progress and then we are able to move forward and the third part is the acceleration of growth; the plan for acceleration of growth."

“We worked very hard over the last few months under the eagle eye of no other person than the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,” Dr. Bawumia disclosed.