[ 2016-12-14 ]

Ghanaians express mixed views about election outcome
The Ghana News Agency has been sampling the
impressions of some members of the public on the
just-ended general election in which Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)
was elected President of Ghana.

Mr Dennis Gati, a self-employed, said President
Mahama's defeat at the polls “seemed like a
mirage” to him.

He said a wind of change had caught up with Ghana,
and therefore, all and sundry must embrace it.

Mr Gati said he was looking forward to seeing Nana
Akufo-Addo's administration resolve the economic
challenges that had bedevilled the nation.

An educationist who pleaded anonymity, said the
NDC's defeat was a self-inflicted one, adding that
"some of the NDC's parliamentarians had lost touch
with the people, while others were very arrogant,
so the people decided to punish them at the
polls".

He urged the NDC not to apportion blame but go
back to the drawing board and find out what went
wrong.

He said Ghanaians, especially the youth, had high
expectations for the incoming administration, and
that if the new government fails to deliver, the
same fate as that of the NDC awaits them in the
2020 polls.

Mr Kwame Kumah, a driver’s mate, said he was
looking forward to a more prosperous economy with
jobs, so that he could earn better income and be
able to rent his own accommodation and marry.

Some of the respondents said they had expected
out-going President Mahama to be retained, due to
the numerous infrastructural projects his
administration was able to put in place such as
roads, the 123 Community Day Senior High Schools,
as well as the Kwame Nkrumah and Kasoa
interchanges.

Ms Janet Manu who is in her mid-thirties, and an
unemployed mother of two, expressed her joy over
Nana Akufo-Addo's victory.

Dressed in a basic school uniform, an elated Ms
Manu said she was lacing her canvas boots properly
for Nana Akufo-Addo's free education programme.

Asked what class she would like to enrol in, Ms
Manu said she had never been to school and that
she was ready to start at any level.

Source - GNA

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