National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer John Dramani Mahama claims that a small number of NPP members are secretly hoping for him to win the general elections on December 7.
He says this is because they think the reformation of the ruling party will be made easier by the defeat of the governing NPP.
Speaking to party members while on a visit of the Upper East, the former president clarified that many in the NPP feel that a few number of people control the majority of the power, which is why they should return to opposition.
“There are many of my friends in the NPP who come and tell me, ‘NDC, you have to do well and get our party out of power’.
“These are NPP people because the NPP has been captured by a small group of people. This is not Kufuor’s group of people…This is not Kufuor’s NPP. This is a different NPP. It has been hijacked by some people and so the democrats and others in NPP actually want the party to lose so that they can go back into opposition so that they can go and reorganize,” he stressed.
When the NDC candidate was elected on December 7, he also pledged to finish all unfinished business left by the Akufo-Addo administration.
In order to assist save limited resources, he said it was critical to finish ongoing projects before starting any new ones.
Speaking to the chiefs and queen mothers in the Upper East Region’s Bawku Naaba’s Palace, the former president expressed his disheartenment at realizing that the majority of the projects initiated by the NDC government had been dropped by the NPP.
“I cut sod to start the Tamne irrigation project and we didn’t complete it before we left. We finished phase one; this government continued it slowly but still, it hasn’t been done. This project will bring about 3000 hectares of land under irrigation so that our young people can do dry season gardening, they can do all-year-round gardening so that they don’t go down South to look for menial jobs.
“So, when we come, we’ll continue the Tamne project because we know it’s going to benefit four districts in this area,” he said.
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