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| Kufuor Predicts NDC Doom |
1/9/2007 |
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President John Agyekum Kufuor has predicted doom for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), whose leader’s utterances he said, would not help the party see light again. He recalled former President Jerry John Rawlings’ vow to throw more people into jail when the NDC returned to power but asserted that God would not give them the power to undertake a jailing spree of Ghanaians.
President Kufuor therefore called on Ghanaians not to give the NDC another mandate to unleash a reign of terror on them once more. He made this statement, when he addressed a mammoth rally at the Jackson Park in Koforidua to climax the 3-day conference on Sunday.
Coincidentally, Sunday January 7th was the day the former president handed over power to President Kufuor. He assured Ghanaians that there was no cause for alarm because the NDC had collapsed, adding, “NPP is blessed and can never die today or tomorrow because it has not intimidated, imprisoned nor denied anybody the freedom of expression or confiscated anybody’s property”.
Recalling how the NPP assumed office with an inherited collapsed economy, President Kufuor said since 2001, the government had worked around the clock to save the economy from stagnation and put it on a pedestal of development and stability.
His administration, he said, had given deeper meaning to the individual freedoms and the centrality of the Rule of Law in democracy.
“We should also not forget where we have come from. Governance involves more than material things. We refuse to choose between material developments and freedom when we can have both; the records show quite clearly that we have offered the nation both,” he explained.
Describing NDC as “Dipreko” administration, President Kufuor noted that under the NDC administration, the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital was in a deplorable state and people did not only form queues to buy petrol and food but pupils studied under trees as well.
Turning to his party members, he said whatever action the government had taken was in the best interest of the party and there was too much history of sacrifice, perseverance, commitment and toil within the tradition over the past five decades, which his government could not overlook.
According to President Kufuor, the 2008 campaign began at the Jackson Park rally, Sunday the 7th of January 2007.
He observed that looking at newspaper publications; one might think there would be blood-shed at the Koforidua conference, considering the large number of aspiring candidates but the opponents had been shamed by the positive developments from the event.
Earlier, the Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama who spoke in Dagbani said by the end of “positive change chapter II”, the party would be the most powerful elephant on earth and appealed to the rank and file of the party to move in unity to ensure victory for the 3rd
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