Popular highlife musician and National Democratic Congress (NDC) sympathiser, Lucky Mensah, has released a campaign song for New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Akufo Addo.
The song, ‘Monto Mma Nana Addo’ mentions the social mitigation achievements of the NPP, including the abolition of the ‘cash-and-carry’ systems in the hospitals and replacing it with a free national health service, provision of free maternal healthcare, a free transportation system and the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) which created jobs for some 50,000 youthful Ghanaians.
According to him, apart from using his resources to produce the song, he would do all within his means to promote it and would gladly accept an invitation to join the NPP campaign even if it means going on the party’s platforms to wear NPP colours and openly endorse Nana Addo and the party’s message.
The song comes as surprise to many as Lucky has been an NDC supporter and was instrumental in their 2008 campaign with his ‘Come Back To NDC’ track which became one of the party’s official campaign songs.
But in an interview with NEWS-ONE, he said, “Times are hard and apart from the few people who are near the big people in government, the rest of us are suffering painfully. Businesses are suffering, the promise by President Mahama to build 200 schools across the country has turned out to be fake, the cost of doing business is so high no one can make any meaningful profit, taxes are too high for the average Ghanaian and electricity cost is too high and sometimes even higher than the cost of rent and I would be a hypocrite if I keep quiet and pretend things are all right. My song is to encourage Ghanaians to vote against hardship, vote against dumsor and vote against a government that does not care about the sufferings of Ghanaians.â€
"I did the song for the NPP because it is very clear that the NDC government for the last eight years it has been in power has failed Ghanaians and the NPP has to take over leadership of this country because our conditions of living is getting worse by the dayâ€, he added.
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