The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo has said President John Mahama does not have the capacity to improve Ghana\u2019s economic prospects.<\/p>\n
Nana Akufo-Addo lamented that the year by year decline of the economy\u2019s growth figures over the course of President Mahama\u2019s National Democratic Congress (NDC) government is the reason his call for a change in leadership ahead of the 2016 polls.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”k2l7Lmtr9QGxfRYZDf04eAb4eJPJsCCF”]\u201cEvery single year since he came, the Ghanaian economy has gone further and further into declined. In his four years, we are now growing the economy of Ghana at less that 4 percent. In Kufuor\u2019s time, it was growing at 9 percent and it has come to 4 percent,\u201d he said on Kumasi-based Nhyira FM.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks like if he sits another two or three years, we will see minus growth in Ghana. He hasn\u2019t got the capacity to be able to organise the economy of our country to put in the proper footing,\u201d the NPP flagberer stated further.<\/p>\n
Nana Akufo-Addo added that Ghana was moving backwards and losing out to neighboring countries like the Ivory Coast thus charged Ghanaians to embrace new leadership in the NPP.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are just moving backwards. We have to change. We need to have a new direction, new leadership, and new policies.\u201d<\/p>\n
He lauded the work the John Kufuor-led NPP administration between 2001 and 2008 saying \u201che set us on a new path of growth and development\u201d but held that the NDC government has since eroded those gains.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe build and they come to waste,\u201d Nana Akufo-Addo said of the perceived turn of events.<\/p>\n
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