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Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, has given students of the University of Development Studies (UDS), and, indeed, all students across the country, a glimpse of the transformation that will take place in Ghana when he is elected President of the Republic in the 2016 election. Addressing a meeting of the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) on Thursday, September 17, at the Navrongo Campus of UDS, Nana Akufo-Addo noted that the period of his government will be marked by a major paradigm shift, where value addition activities in a transformed and a diversified modern economy will be the order of the day. The NPP flagbearer told the gathering that his government�s focus will be on the structural transformation of Ghana�s economy, �where industrial activity will be the main source of economic activity in our country�. �Imagine a Ghana, where we have a modern agricultural economy, where we have year-long agriculture in all parts of the country, where we are an exporting country of food stuffs to the rest of West Africa and Africa, and where 60 to 70% of our foreign receipts come from the export of industrial and agricultural products from Ghana,� Akufo-Addo said. He continued, �Imagine a situation where you leave school, people are coming to you to ask �what job will you like to do�? In your last year, people from industry and commerce will come here to ask you what jobs you want in their enterprises, because we have a country that is working, a country that is buoyant. That is the Ghana we are fighting for.� The current state of a non-performing Ghana under the Mahama government, according to Nana Akufo-Addo, is one he believes the majority of Ghanaians are desperate to leave behind. �We want to leave behind this Ghana of non-performance, a Ghana that is sinking into the ground. Where there are no jobs for young people, where our farmers cannot work because they don�t have access to affordable inputs and fertilizers, where our currency is unstable and traders cannot make any meaningful profit. We want to leave all that behind and move into a new Ghana that is working for all of us. That is what is ahead of us,� he noted. He urged the gathering, made up of lecturers and students, to trust and have confidence in him because the transformation he is seeking to make in Ghana �is possible�. Citing the example of Cote d�Ivoire, a country smaller in size and in population compared to Ghana, which had endured a bloody dispute in their last election, resulting in the loss and displacing of thousands of lives, but had, in a short period, turned around their fortunes, he said Ghana would regain its status as the Black Star of Africa under his administration. �We can do the same thing here in Ghana. That is the vision that I am asking you to buy into,� he added.