The running mate to the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has said the reset slogan being touted by the leaders of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) means they will take the country’s development efforts backwards.
He said the NDC’s reset means canceling the free Senior High School (SHS) social intervention policy and going back to gloomy days of Dumsor.
Dr Prempeh said the contents of the NDC’s 2024 manifesto don’t bring any hope. Rather, it poses great danger to the progress of the country so they should be rejected.
He recounted how businesses collapsed when the NDC administration, led by ex-President Mahama, plunged the country into ‘Dumsor’ for four consecutive years.
NAPO cautioned the electorate that if they mistakenly vote for John Mahama and the NDC, definitely ‘Dumsor’ which Ghanaians are afraid of, will return.
“Under the watch of former President John Mahama, the country suffered severe power crisis also known as ‘Dumsor’ in the local parlance for four continuous years.
“Total mismanagement and bad leadership by John Mahama led us into that hardship, so we shouldn’t give him another chance to restore ‘Dumsor’”, NAPO said.
“The NPP after the assumption of power office in 2017 implemented better policies to effectively deal with the power crisis once and for all”, the NPP running mate said.
He also warned that the NDC would scrap the free SHS programme, which has helped scores of Ghanaian youth to realize their ambitions of being in school.
According to him, it took the intervention of the President Nana Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government to save the country from the seeming unending power crisis.
He also cautioned “NDC government will not hesitate to scrap the free SHS social intervention programme so we should never give them the chance to come near power”.
He was hopeful the New Patriotic Party will definitely ‘break the 8.’
Dr Prempeh, who was addressing a mammoth crowd at Toase on his campaign tour in Atwima Nwabiagya Constituency, appealed to the citizenry to vote for Dr. Bawumia to save the free SHS policy and also prevent another ‘Dumsor’.
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