NPP AFFIRMS ITS POSITION AS THE NUMBER ONE (1) POLITICAL PARTY IN GHANA; PARTY IS NUMBER ONE ON THE 2020 BALLOT

The NPP is pleased to inform the Ghanaian people that the party’s position as the number one(1) political party in Ghana and the pacesetter of unprecedented records in government has again been affirmed by the Almighty as the party picks the number one position on the 2020 ballot. This is certainly no mean a coincidence because the party has, time without number, shown the way as the model of good governance, competent leadership and socioeconomic transformation of the fortunes of this country.

Records have it that:

1) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana to implement the biggest educational intervention in the country’s post-independence history, the Free SHS policy, which is helping to secure the future of some 1.5 million Ghanaian youth.

2) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that has been able to provide free water and free electricity to Ghanaians for more than 6 months.

3) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana to implement the biggest health intervention programme in the country’s post-independence history, which is the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and has consistently saved the Scheme from collapse.

4) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana to implement the biggest intervention in the nation’s agriculture sector, which is the Planting for Food and Jobs.

5) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that has constructed or facilitated the construction of over 79 factories under the famous 1D1F initiative.

6) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that has consistently kept the lights on (i.e. ensured a no dumsor republic) throughout its tenure of office.

7) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that has successfully commenced the construction of the single largest infrastructure project in Northern Ghana since independence, which is the Pwalugu Irrigation Project.

8) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that was able to successfully ensure the passage of the Right to Information Act after 21 years since it was introduced and having gone through six parliaments under the 4th Republic.

9) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that established the Office of the Special Prosecutor and gave the most resources to all the Antigraft agencies including the Auditor General, EOCO etc in order to help them fight corruption of all kinds.

10) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that implemented the biggest intervention in the nation’s transport sector, which is the Metro Mass Transit System and has also revamped the railway sector.

11) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that implemented the most robust and transformational digitization initiatives in the country’s post-independence history, which include:

•National ID System
•Digital Address System
•Mobile Money Payment Interoperability
•Online Passport Application
•Digital Driving License
•Digitized Motor Insurance and Vehicle Registration
•Digitization of Birth and Death Registry
•Digitized NHIS membership renewal.

12) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that has established three Development Authorities to assist in decentralizing the provision of infrastructure to poor and deprived communities in the country.

13) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that established the Zongo Development Fund as well as the Ministry of Inner-City and Zongo Development to help revolutionize and accelerate the development of the nation’s Zongos and Inner Cities.

14) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana when it comes to competent economic management and has consistently achieved the best economic records in our history including reduced inflation, reduced interest rate, reduced policy rate, reduced fiscal deficit, best record in the rate of cedi depreciation and economic growth rate.

15) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that has consistently demonstrated competence in taking Ghana out of an IMF programme.

16) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that has absorbed in full BECE and WASSCE examination fees for all students, and also abolished the payment of utility bills by students.

17) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that has restored and maintained both teacher and nursing trainee allowance.

18) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that has, in 3 and half years, created over two million full-time equivalent jobs in the public and private formal sectors, as well as through Government job-creation programmes.

19) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that has implemented the biggest employment initiatives in the country’s history through policies such as the National Youth Employment Scheme, NEIP, NABCO among others.

20) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that has been able to clean-up the financial sector mess with the injection of over GH¢21.60 billion thereby protecting the funds of some 4.6 million depositors, protecting the investments of 81,700 people, and the jobs of 10,000 people, all of which otherwise would have been lost.

21) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that was able to successfully redefine basic education from Kindergarten to include SHS covering vocational, agricultural and technical schools.

22) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that implemented the Capitation Grant and doubled same in recent times; implemented the school feeding programme among several other pro-poor educational policies which have increased school enrolment to unprecedented levels.

23) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana and indeed in the world, that has revolutionized health care delivery in this country through the use of drones for essential medical supplies.

24) The NPP is the only political party in Ghana that implemented the most interventions in the nation’s agriculture sector including Planting for Export and Rural Development; Greenhouse Villages; Food Crops Initiative; Agricultural Mechanization Centres which have not only significantly increased productivity but have also increased farmer income.

25) The NPP is the number one political party in Ghana that has strengthened the National Ambulance Service (NAS) through the “One-Constituency, One Ambulance” initiative with the provision of 307 ambulances across the country.

With all of these in mind, it certainly cannot be doubted that the NPP is indeed the number one political party in Ghana, which fact has again been affirmed at today’s balloting exercise ahead of the 2020 General Elections. Not only will our Presidential Candidate, H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, be appearing number one on the ballot paper, but also all our 275 Parliamentary Candidates.

It is also noteworthy that in the first balloting exercise to determine the order of appearance of the political parties for the main balloting, the NPP picked number four (4), which again is consistent with the party’s 4More4Nana mantra in order to place Ghana number one (1) on the world stage, which number was eventually confirmed in the final balloting. Interestingly, the balloting exercise reveals that the NDC’s John Mahama is coming for Round 2 in order to taste his SECOND DEFEAT at the polls Insha Allah.

JOHN BOADU
GENERAL SECRETARY