President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured Ghanaians he has not spent the three years in power pushing pen at the Jubilee House.
According to him, he has been going around the country consistently to acquaint himself with ongoing work and see for himself what the government is delivering to Ghanaians.
He stressed, “You don’t have a president who is sitting in his office. You have a president that is seeing what is going on in Ghana.
The President gave the assurance in a speech he delivered at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Annual National Delegates Congress at the Trade Fair Center in Accra on Sunday.
He stated that since the creation of the Abaco Region, he has visited the new region four times and that goes to all the other regions.
He said, “I have visited Ashanti a region 29 times, the Bono Region, seven tomes; Central Region, 14 times; Bono East, two times; Eastern Region, 10 times; Greater Accra, countless times; Northern Region, 24 times; North East, three times; Savanah Region, four times; Oti Region, five times; Upper East, 11 times; Upper West, eight times; Volta Region, six times; Western Region, 17 times and Western North Region, six times.
“I know all of the regions and I have been visiting and visiting,” he added.
According to President Akufo-Addo, government by its work has placed itself in a position for victory come and 2020 and that next year is going to be another emphatic victory for the NPP in the elections.
He indicated that what he has seen on his travels around the country that is very encouraging is the massive support of the people for the work that the government has done all over the country.
The President stressed that wherever he visited he had been met by large crowds of enthusiastic people.
He said, “They are the ones who began the cry four more for Nana.”
He advised the NPP not to go for the parliamentary primaries next April and engage in backbiting and unnecessary fighting. The victory of the NPP, he said, is what matters and not the victory of any individual and urged members to remember that.
Without the victory of the party, we would not be sitting here today. We should all remember therefore that the party is bigger than each and every one of us including myself, he added.
President Akufo-Addo noted that the NPP is over 70 years old has gone through a lot including the difficulties of the first republic and the periods of the coup d’etat and each time the party had come out stronger.
