Give me chance to do what Ouattara has done for Cote d'Ivoire - Akufo-Addo

The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, The NPP flagbearer, has appealed to Ghanaians to give him the opportunity to do for Ghana what Alassane Ouattara is doing for Cote d’Ivoire.

 

According to him, Cote d’Ivoire, after emerging from civil war which resulted in 100,000 displaced people and 3,000 dead as a result of an election dispute some six years ago has been transformed purposeful leadership of its president.

"Because they have a good leader, Cote d’Ivoire is now the envy of her peers in West Africa. The number one investment destination in Africa now is Cote d’Ivoire. It has happened because they have a leader who has a vision and courage to move the country forward,” he said, adding, “a leader who has love for his or her country, and has the vision or foresight of where he wants to take his or her country is the one who can help transform the lot of his people".

 Addressing a mammoth gathering at Kade, at the commencement of his 5-day tour of the Eastern Region on Wednesday, Nana Addo noted that, unless Ghana industrialises with the goal of adding significant value to her primary products, the country cannot create the necessary numbers of high-paying jobs that will enhance the living standards of the mass of Ghanaians.

He stressed that raw material producing economies do not create prosperity for the masses, adding that the only way to the goal of ensuring access to prosperity is value addition activities in a transformed and a diversified modern economy.

He, therefore, reiterated his commitment towards the setting up one factory in each of the 216 districts, assuring that, “we (in the NPP) are going to do it. It is those who do not believe in the ‘can-do-spirit’ of the Ghanaian who always try to say it cannot be done.” 

“We have to change Ghana, by building a new Ghana where the young people will have hope in the future of our country. This year, let us use our thumbs to change the fortunes of Ghana. I want the youth of our country to have hope that the poverty that has engulfed Ghana is not what God destined for us. I know if God gives us (the NPP) the opportunity, we will truly make Ghana the Black Star of Africa,” he said.

He, according to starrfmonline, also assured that he will “assemble a first class government made up of men and women with experience and wisdom. Entrust Ghana into the hands of men and women who have done things with their lives, and you can be sure that when you put things in their care, they will take good care of it.”