Akufo Addo Starts Political Campaign, Says NPP Will Win 2024 Elections

President Akufo-Addo has expressed confidence that his party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will win the 2024 elections, even though his government is practically being blamed for the dire socio-economic hardships in the country currently.

“I am very confident that on the 7th of December, 2024, the new NPP Presidential Candidate is going to win the elections of 2024,” the President said in a highly partisan tone.

The President expressed his belief at the 29th anniversary of the founding of the NPP.

The party was founded on July 28, 1992, so that the 29th anniversary of its formation happened on 28th July 2021.

However, the party chose to mark the day on Wednesday, eight days after the 28th of July 2021. 

The commemoration also fell on a day after the 74th anniversary of the formation of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), the party to which NPP traces its lineage.

Mr. Akufo-Addo’s loud thoughts on the 2024 election are coming at a time that confidence in his government is very low. A sense of betrayal over what the current government promised to do with borrowing for instance is very rife in town.

After promising to resist borrowing if voted for, while in opposition, the government which inherited a legacy debt of Ghc120billion, has escalated the debt to Ghc300billion.

The government has not also fixed the unemployment conundrum as promised.

But probably, the government’s most troublesome headache is corruption. Which is perceived as the worst in the history of the country.

President Akufo-Addo’s hopeful outlook comes in the wake of a potential party damaging wrestle between his Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia and Trade Minister, Alan Kyeremanten, for the leadership of the NPP after Akufo-Addo’s tenure.

Perhaps cognizant of the upcoming watershed, the President rallied the party’s support base to throw its weight behind anybody who will emerge as Flagbearer of the party in 2024.

“Our responsibility is to do whatever it is necessary to make sure that victory is forthcoming. We have to continue our way forward in Ghana. We cannot accept the backsliding that takes place every now and then. It hasn’t benefited our nation and it will not benefit our nation,” he said.