{"id":262546,"date":"2016-10-28T09:07:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T09:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=262546"},"modified":"2016-10-28T09:07:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T09:07:48","slug":"my-promises-are-not-election-gimmicks-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=262546","title":{"rendered":"My promises are not election gimmicks &#8211; Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo has said he is above making promises as a mere political gimmick.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Akufo-Addo assured Ghanaians his\u00a0promises to make Ghana a better place for all was not just a campaign message to win votes.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;vJR9LuBbMLN1QMhbIyjGLDDFRYiFz8je&#8221;]He said to the people of Hohoe in the Volta Region during a rally that\u00a0the NPP has a competent team to execute all the promises made on the campaign trail Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All these promises, I have come here to Hohoe to let you know. These are not election gimmicks. They are not empty promises.\u00a0If I could not do them, I would not stand before the people of Ghana and say I am coming to do it. I know the NPP and I, we have worker out what we need to do. We know we an do it,\u201d\u00a0 the NPP Flagbearer said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is why I have the courage to stand before you to tell you I am coming to implement these policies, all of them so we can bring jobs to our young people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Nana Addo promises<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of plans to industrialize and transform the Ghanaian economy, Nana Akufo-Addo indicated that his government plans to help <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/19\/nana-addo-promises-1-district-1-factory-policy\/\">establish a factory<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in each of the 216 districts across the country, if he wins the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Akufo-Addo also\u00a0promised to establish <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/28\/nana-addo-pledges-1-village-1-dam-to-boost-agric\/\">one dam in every village<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the northern part of the country to boost agriculture through a well planed irrigation policy.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP Flagbearer also\u00a0promised to create <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/12\/ill-create-another-region-from-western-nana-addo\/\">another region<\/a><\/strong><\/span> from the Western Region, should he emerge winner in the December polls.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Akufo-Addo&#8217;s\u00a0promises have however been met by questions of feasibility and criticism from the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) with the party largely accusing him pandering for votes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo has said he is above making promises as a mere political gimmick. Nana Akufo-Addo assured Ghanaians his\u00a0promises to make Ghana a better place for all was not just a campaign message to win votes. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;vJR9LuBbMLN1QMhbIyjGLDDFRYiFz8je&#8221;]He said to the people of Hohoe in the Volta Region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":244749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2647,2648,58,10,11],"tags":[2356,3,156,56],"class_list":["post-262546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2647","category-election","category-politics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-elections","tag-ghana-news","tag-nana-addo","tag-npp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}