President Akufo-Addo has admitted that there is economic hardship in the country currently. He has however blamed the COVID-19 pandemic and its negative impact on a derailed national economy.
Addressing the NPP’s 2021 Annual National Delegates Conference in Kumasi in the Ashanti region, President Akufo-Addo assured that the government’s Obatampa programme to be rolled out in 2020 will help significantly mitigate the plight of Ghanaians.
Conference
The National Delegates’ Conference of the ruling New Patriotic Party, NPP, the highest decision making organ of the party, was to afford the leadership, rank and file the opportunity to take a retrospective look at the State of the party and also its performance during the 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
The Conference was in three parts beginning with a Church Service, speeches by selected leaders, and a consideration of some proposals by members for consideration for amendment of its Constitution.
Vice President Bawumia
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia ridiculed the NDC and its leadership for their supposed inability to properly defend their petition at the Supreme Court after the Presidential election saying that “Nana Akufo-Addo won the polls genuinely”.
Governance
According to him, despite the havoc wreaked by the Covid-19 pandemic last year, the NPP government has still managed the macroeconomy far better with many innovations including an Electronic Pharmacy Care he will launch in January 2022
Election 2020
President Akufo-Addo also insisted that the NPP won 2020 on a clean note.
“The Party has a majority in Parliament contrary to claims by some people.”
Election 2024
President Akufo-Addo promised to hand power over to another NPP government since the next Presidential elections is for the NPP to lose only if the rank and file will unite behind whoever will be elected the next Flagbearer.
Economy
On the prevailing economic circumstances of the people, President Akufo-Addo admitted that there is currently hardship in the country but blamed it on the Covid-19 pandemic.
