NPP Gets Wild For 2012

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has taken another step towards ensuring good elections devoid of malpractices, as they take their case to God. Leading party gurus including former President Kufuor; Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the 2012 flagbearer of the party; Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, party chairman; and Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie, popularly called Sir John, general secretary, responded to the invitation of the party�s Christian Prayer Network to attend a thanksgiving prayer session under the theme, �God, Source Of Our Inheritance��, at the Efua Sutherland Children�s Park yesterday. One could almost conclude that it was an open church service held on a pitch, especially as the attendees, including dignitaries such as former Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, Most Rev Dr Samuel Asante-Antwi, took part in the prayers administered by a motley of pastors albeit in party colours. Former President Kufuor, during an interregnum in the prayers and songs of praise, scorned at propagandists whom, he said, used lies to come to power in the last elections, but gave the assurance that the NPP would return to power to change the fortunes of the country. The propagandists, he said, used a few radio stations and spewed lies about the NPP, explaining that this contributed towards the defeat of the party in the 2008 polls. Life under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, he said, was full of trial and error and that within the short term of the incumbent being in office, they had demonstrated incompetence of the highest order. �Our party will be voted back to power,� he said confidently amidst smiles. He wondered why an economy which quadrupled during his tenure should retrogress within the short time that the incumbent had been in office. It was his first public address since returning from the US where he received the World Food Prize Foundation award of $125,000. Taking a swipe at the Mills administration, Mr Kufuor wondered whether the present government understood the management of the economy, pointing at the weaning of the country off the IMF under his watch, only for his successors to return to the Bretton Woods institution. The NPP, he said, would by the grace of God �come back and harness ourselves to serve the country. We shall return the country to mainstream of middle income countries�. He encouraged Ghanaians not to listen to the propagandists.