The Political Science Department’s rating comes few days after the Industrial Commercial Workers Union (ICU), rated government 80% for its performance so far.

[contextly_sidebar id=”tA4Lv5drtVjXWSKlbPCnliT4HM5hyvFL”]In the Political Science Department’s research, which focused on democratic governance, 49% of the 5000 voters sampled, endorsed the Free Senior High School [SHS] programme, making it one of popular initiatives of the government.

It also revealed that, 64% of respondents backed the creation of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, while 37% approved of the campaign against illegal mining. According to the survey, 58% of voters believe that former President Mahama will lead the opposition National Democratic Congress in the 2020 elections.

Mr. Nukpenu however believes it is too early to assess the performance of a government that has been in power for just a year.

“It is early days for people to be rating the NPP so that they will think they are on a sound footing,” Mr. Nukpenu suggested.

‘We’ve lived up to expectation’

While Mr. Nukpenu believes it will be difficult to assess the NPP government’s performance now, the Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, Obiri Boahen, insists that the survey was a true reflection of government’s performance so far.

According to him, although the Nana Addo administration has committed some errors in its first year , it has generally lived up to expectation.

“The NPP has lived up to expectation, and I have also been saying that, the fact that we have erred in one way or the other, cannot also be ruled out, but generally we have performed creditably well. We have done well and we are praying that we will continue to improve upon what we delivered to them .”

11 controversies that rocked NPP gov’t in 2017

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government officially marked the first year of its administration on 7th January, 2017, after wresting power from the then NDC government led by John Dramani Mahama.

The party claimed electoral victory on the back of many campaign promises aimed at boosting social infrastructure and providing a convenient economic environment for private businesses to thrive.

Despite the 62% acceptance rating, the government has had its share of controversies, with several of them being alleged corruption scandals.

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According to him, Jerry John Rawlings publicly painted the party as corrupt, which the New Patriotic Party (NPP) capitalized on to campaign against them.

Some political analysts have said a lot of Ghanaians voted against the NDC over the recurring corruption scandals under the Mahama-led administration.

[contextly_sidebar id=”T3lZwWQwO5J9CwT9ewfhv5ffvAhLDZc6″]The NPP won with an overwhelming 53.85% of the total votes cast, against the NDC’s 44.4%.

In an Citi News interview, Anthony Nukpenu said Mr. Rawlings cannot be left out of the blame game.

“We as a party we have a founder in the person of Jerry John Rawlings and as party members we felt he should be a protective cover for the party and the government; but he chose to arm the opposition against us.  The NPP got to our heels by campaigning against us heavily on this so called corruption perception and anytime they made that claim they claimed that the founder of the NDC is the one who said the president is the most corrupt person and his appointees are very corrupt so they should be voted out. So if you have this message being used against you by your political opponents and courtesy the founder of your party, it goes a long way to affect your political fortunes. And that has been one of the tools that caused us to have this humiliating defeat,” he argued.

Why did Akufo-Addo thank Rawlings?

Nukpenu expressed anger over president-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo’s expression of gratitude to former president Rawlings during his acceptance speech last Friday, after he was declared winner of Ghana’s polls.

“One of the tools he gave them was corruption, and Nana Akufo-Addo in his acceptance speech congratulated him. On what basis was he congratulating him, thanking him so much for what he has done for him?”

Rawlings shut his doors at us but met NPP

The NDC Greater Accra Regional Organizer, also lamented that the former President closed his doors to the NDC, yet met with some NPP executives prior to the election

“We as a party making moves to have a meeting with our founder, he will not agree, but he has the time and opportunity to open his doors with Volta Regional NPP executives to have meeting with him. What is he telling the world? So things have gone bad, we don’t want to go there. I know the several moves that we made when we needed him and he turned us down. He has brought us to opposition which has been his call, so he should call us; we are ready to go to him.”

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By: Godwin A. Allotey & Philip Nii Lartey/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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