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You don’t break the eight with sweet speeches – Sulemana Briamah tells Akufo-Addo, Bawumia
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Vida Essel-LampteyThe Executive Director for Media Foundation for West Africa, Mr Sulemana Braimah has reacted to pronouncement by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that the party will break the eight-year election cycle in the country with a victory in the 2024 polls.
In a twitter post sighted by GhanaPlus.com, he said the eight-year cycle cannot be broken with sweet speeches neither could it be broken by fighting everyone accepts their praise singers.
He also added the cycle which had become the accepted norm in the country since the beginning of democratic rule could not be broken by permitting corruption to thrive and also defending and praising ministers who sign scandalous agreement on behalf of the country.
“You don’t break the 8 by fighting everyone apart from your praise singers. You don’t break the 8 by allowing corruption to fester You don’t break the 8 with just sweet speeches You don’t break the 8 by defending and praising ministers who sign scandalous contracts,” Mr Brimah’s tweet reads.
Akufo-Addo, Bawumia on NPP’s win in 2024
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia have both been reported to have made the assertion that the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP) would break the eight-year governing circle and retain the presidency come 2024.
The President speaking at the 29th anniversary of the NPP on August 5, said he was confidence the party would win the 2024 elections.
“Today, the challenges that confront our country, the difficulties that we have been plunged into by the COVID-19 pandemic are going to give us the opportunity to grow stronger and stronger and that strengthening of our party and its organs means one thing, and I am very confident of it that on December 7, 2024, the new NPP presidential candidate is going to win the election.”
The Vice President, on his part while addressing Central Regional Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) conference at the University of Cape Coast on Sunday, August 8, said the party would deliver on it promises to the Ghanaians to enable them give them another mandate, thereby breaking the eight-year election cycle.
“Ghanaians will continue to give the mandate to NPP to continue governance beyond 2024. We will deliver, and we will break the eight-year electoral tenure in Ghana with our strong foundation. The NPP will not disappoint Ghana,” Vice President Bawumia assured, as he called on the youth of the party to rededicate themselves to that pursuit, saying “let’s see ourselves as collaborators and agents of break the eight,” he said.
Source: GhanaPlus.com
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