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The Acting Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. Freddie Blay, says Ghanaians, in the 2016 general elections, will vote in a party that is well-versed in the business of governance, and has proven to possess a solid track record in improving the quality of lives of Ghanaians.

Addressing a press conference at the Headquarters of the Party on Wednesday, 18th November, and flanked by National Executives of the party, Mr. Freddie Blay, stated that Ghanaians have endured for 7 years, under the NDC government, an administration that has proven to be clueless and incompetent in every sector of the Ghanaian economy.

According to the acting NPP Chairman, indications from the vast majority of the people on the ground points to the fact that 2016 is really about a change from the NDC to the NPP, “a change from a party that in eight years makes the people poorer and the nation bankrupt to the Party that can rescue the economy and put Ghana back to work.”

He continued, “It is about a change from the needless and avoidable hardships that Ghanaians have been forced to face in these eight years of NDC. The campaign in 2016 is essentially about which party can be TRUSTED to change the lives of Ghanaians. And these decisions will be based on the facts. Nothing more, nothing less.”

Agreeing with President Mahama that that the 2016 campaign is all about Change, in a riposte to the President’s “Changing Lives” tour, Mr. Freddie Blay stressed that “2016 is about a change from the INCOMPETENCE the people see, the incompetence we feel and the incompetence we know.”

Citing the return of the Cash and Carry policy in place of the collapsed National Health Insurance Scheme, coupled with the rampant and widespread corruption and rising levels of youth employment, Mr. Freddie Blay insisted that change from the Mahama government to an Akufo-Addo-led NPP administration is what is needed to bring back hope to the people of Ghana.

“(2016) is about a change from dumsor. It is about a change from broken promises… it is all about a change from falling education standards. It is about a change from the collapse of the school-feeding programme. It is about a change from increasing the burden of the cost of education on parents and students.”

“2016 is about a change in the rising cost of living. It is about changing the rising cost of borrowing. It is about business people wanting a change in the high cost of running their business. . It is about changing the fate of the falling Ghana Cedi. It is about ensuring that Ghanaian workers can have some change in their pockets,” he added.

With the NDC government, led by President Mahama, ending its second term in office and promising to transform Ghana, when, according to the acting NPP Chairman, it cannot even afford to get power plants and transformers end ‘dumsor’, the good people of Ghana know what to say to that government.

“The message from Ghanaians to President John Mahama is, ‘enough is enough!’”, he stressed.

It will be recalled that on President Mahama’stour in Tamale at the weekend, he could not understand why Ghanaians were not seeing the work he claims to be doing. His explanation was that, “We are working just like an artist. When artists are working you don’t actually know what they are doing until they finish the work.”

“The NPP is struggling to get the logic here… If after more than 80 per cent of the drawing or painting has been done, and the person who is sitting there for her portrait to be done cannot recognise herself on the canvass then what difference will the remaining 20% make? What image can come out of the creative hands of such a hopeless so-called artist?” he asked.

He continued, “After seven years of a Better Ghana, the President is now telling us that we should not worry if we cannot see the work the NDC claims to have done. That all the promises that he has failed to fulfil will suddenly be fulfilled in the last year and under an IMF austerity programme.”

This, according to Mr Freddie Blay, is an admission of failure on the part of President Mahama.

“By describing himself as the artist whose finishing touches we still cannot see, the President is himself admitting that he has failed. He is saying he is guilty of failing Ghana,” he added.