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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is holding a thanksgiving ceremony to celebrate its December 2016 election victory.<\/p>\n

The event, being held at the Accra International Conference Center today, December 7, marks exactly a year since the party wrestled power from the John Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.<\/p>\n

President Akufo Addo, his Vice, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, and other leading members of the party will be at the event.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”QqYNYEk2V5GAkB57ZUfeNTDiWBids7hF”]Acting General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu, told Citi News<\/strong> the party’s victory was divine, hence the event to thank God for an incident-free election.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s exactly one year since we had the historic elections of our country. It went very peacefully and we believe that God has done so much for us that we need to thank God for what he has done for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Akufo-Addo wins 2016 elections<\/strong><\/p>\n

Akufo-Addo thwarted John Mahama\u2019s plan of serving a second term by beating him in the election with 53.85% of the total valid votes cast, against Mahama\u2019s 44.4%.<\/p>\n

Akufo-Addo\u2019s victory was described as historic in many ways, as it was the first time a sitting President was beaten in an election, and also the first time a total vote difference of more than 1 million was recorded, between the winner and his closest opponent in an election in Ghana.<\/p>\n

Many analysts who sought to explain Akufo-Addo\u2019s victory attributed it to factors that include the general trend of public disaffection for sitting governments that have served 8 years in government, impunity and the perception of massive corruption in the NDC government among other things.<\/p>\n

72-year-old Akufo-Addo, a lawyer, had earlier made two unsuccessful attempts at the presidency.<\/p>\n

He contested the NDC\u2019s John Evans Atta-Mills in 2008 but lost. He again failed on his second attempt in 2012 against the NDC\u2019s candidate John Mahama.<\/p>\n

The NPP\u2019s conviction that the NDC rigged the election forced it to file a motion at the Supreme Court to\u00a0challenge the results<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of the elections.<\/p>\n

An 8-month-long legal tussle over the matter, eventually saw the Supreme Court upholding the election results declared by the Electoral Commission in favour of the NDC.<\/p>\n

This however led to some reforms in Ghana\u2019s electoral laws.<\/p>\n

While on the campaign trail for the 2016 elections, Nana Addo announced policies that include setting up a factory in every district, building a dam in every village of the three Northern Regions, and providing a Ghc 1million development fund for every constituency, as some of the things he will do when he comes to power.<\/p>\n

He also pledged to reintroduce the payment of a monthly allowance to nursing and teacher trainees in the country \u2013 something the NDC government stopped doing because it said it wanted to invest the money into educational infrastructure to enable it to admit more trainees.<\/p>\n

Although Akufo-Addo has not explicitly given timelines to his\u00a0pledges and policies<\/a><\/strong>, most Ghanaians are highly expectant of moves to implement them, especially in his first year.<\/p>\n

So far, the allowance for trainee nurses and teachers has been restored, whereas the party’s flagship programme, Free SHS has been implemented, although it is faced with initial challenges.<\/p>\n

Processes towards the fulfillment of other promises are also ongoing.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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