{"id":84709,"date":"2015-01-22T13:28:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=84709"},"modified":"2015-01-22T14:03:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T14:03:37","slug":"ghanaians-believe-npp-can-better-manage-the-economy-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=84709","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians believe NPP can manage economy better \u2013 Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo has said Ghanaians believe the NPP has the\u00a0capacity to manage <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/20\/fiscal-imbalance-economy-must-addressed-dr-gatsi\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ghana\u2019s economy<\/strong><\/a><\/span> better than the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;LOn0qiKBn0BRKporMkILgKnaZdSF6HLG&#8221;]He observed that more Ghanaians are of the view that\u00a0\u201cwe in the NPP can be trusted to better manage the economy and create the opportunities for prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;My own sense is that the Ghanaian people have come to trust me. Contrary to the propaganda, they know that I will not put my ambition and selfish interest before the wellbeing of the country. They know I have been sincere and consistent with what I believe we must do to bring about prosperity for everyone,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nana Akufo-Addo made the statement in response to a question posed by Dr Alex Vines OBE, Head of the Africa Programme at Chatham House,\u00a0at a roundtable discussion in London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Vines wanted to know why Nana Akufo-Addo believed he would be third time lucky in securing the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Explaining further, Nana Akufo-Addo said, \u201cWhen I go around the country, I sense this and it is like, after all let us give him a chance for him to show what he can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Akufo-Addo said when voted into office, his government would ensure fiscal discipline and macroeconomic stability, to curb <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/16\/inflation-rate-2014-ends-17\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>inflation<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, bring down\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/20\/high-interest-rates-killing-business-pef\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>interest rates<\/strong><\/a><\/span> and move away from the high fiscal deficits and \u201c<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/23\/govts-reckless-borrowing-will-affect-ghanas-rating-bawumia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>reckless borrowing<\/strong><\/a><\/span> that has characterized the Mahama government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He will be contesting for the presidency of the country for the third time in the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-=\"\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var \n\njs,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test\n\n(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id))\n\n{js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p\n\n+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.in\n\nsertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-\n\nwjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo has said Ghanaians believe the NPP has the\u00a0capacity to manage Ghana\u2019s economy better than the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC). [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;LOn0qiKBn0BRKporMkILgKnaZdSF6HLG&#8221;]He observed that more Ghanaians are of the view that\u00a0\u201cwe in the NPP can be trusted to better manage the economy and create the opportunities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"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":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-84709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84709","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}