[ 2016-11-22 ]

We don’t want a ‘dead goat’ as president - Bawumia
The 2016 vice presidential candidate of the New
Patriotic Party, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, says
Ghanaians no longer want a ‘dead goat’ for a
President – a President who is and will remain
“indifferent to their hardships and
sufferings” they go through on a daily basis.

Addressing thousands of residents of Aflao, who
turned up at the NPP’s Volta Regional Rally, on
Sunday, November 20, 2016, Dr. Bawumia stated that
the government of President Mahama has worsened
the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian, leaving in
its wake an unprecedented level of unemployment.

Nana Akufo-Addo’s running mate indicated that
with more revenue, in the form of loans and taxes,
than all governments in Ghana’s history put
together, the government of President Mahama has
been unable to pay nursing and teacher training
allowances, as well as several months of NHIS
claims owed hospitals.

“They cannot pay for School Feeding, they cannot
pay for Mass Cocoa Spraying. The National Youth
Employment Programme has collapsed under their
watch and they cannot pay contractors. That is why
we are saying they are an incompetent
government,” he said.

According to Dr. Bawumia, with Ghanaians
desperately yearning for their problems to be
solved, “he (President Mahama) tells us he’s
not a magician. He says he’s not a magician to
solve the problem of unemployment. But, he’s a
very good magician when it comes to the
disappearance of Ghana’s money under create,
loot and share schemes like SADA, Woyome, Ameri,
Karpower, GYEEDA, Waterville, ISOFOTON, etc."

He continued, “President Mahama is a very good
magician at making our money disappear. We want
change. We want to elect a new President. We
don’t want a dead goat as a president. A dead
goat is a dead goat, whether in Ashanti, Volta,
Greater Accra, Brong Ahafo, Eastern, Upper West,
Upper East, Western, Central or Northern. We
don’t want to vote for a dead goat.”

Dr. Bawumia was confident that the people of Ghana
“don’t want to vote for a president who cannot
think far. Of what use is a president who cannot
think far be to this country? We want a farsighted
President. We don’t want to vote for a president
whose government is corrupt, and we definitely
don’t want to vote for an incompetent
President.”

He assured the people of the Volta Region that
“in 18 days’ time a new Ghana will be born,
and we will begin to see the restoration of a
leadership of vision, integrity and
incorruptibility under Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo. In 18 days’ time, we will have a new
President-Elect of the Republic of Ghana. We will
replace this corrupt and incompetent government of
President Mahama.”

Dr. Bawumia added that “in 18 days’ time, you
will begin to see the process of the restoration
of the teacher training and nursing allowances. We
will begin the process of transformation of the
economy which brings down unemployment and brings
jobs to our people.”

He therefore urged residents of Aflao and the
populace of the Volta Region to unite and ignore
the tribal and ethnocentric politics being waged
by President Mahama.

“Let us all come together as one country, and
let us not allow President Mahama to divide us. He
has no message, he has lost the argument. You
cannot govern with propaganda and tribalism. Away
with tribalism and let’s get together with unity
under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,” he
appealed.

Thanking the people of Aflao who turned out in
their thousands to attend the rally, Dr. Bawumia
stated that “from what I am seeing today, I can
see why some people are panicking. I can see why
they are making nonsensical statements, and I can
see why, Insha Allah, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
will be the next President of Ghana.”

Source - Starrfm

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