The Upper East Regional Research and Electoral Officer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it will be an act of ungratefulness if Ghanaians vote against the governing party on the basis of the ongoing incessant power cuts.
Daniel Ziba argued that the NPP government led by president Nana Akufo-Addo has performed creditably well in every sector and impacted significantly on the lives of Ghanaians.
He said, through remarkable policies and programmes implemented by the government, children benefit from free education up to the second cycle level and are offered jobs after graduating from the tertiary level.
This, he said, was not the case under the erstwhile Mahama administration under which, he claimed, graduates were left unemployed and businesses collapsed due to power crisis.
With all these good policies and programmes Ghanaians are enjoying under the Akufo-Addo, Daniel stated that it will be a sign of ungratefulness on the part of any Ghanaian who votes against the governing party at the December polls.
“If your son or your daughter has benefitted so much from the government, going to school for 3 years for free without paying fees. Your son completed university and sat home for 4 years, we have come, we have fixed the person, he is there working and taking salary, then you look at somebody who comes to put off the lights for 5 minutes and bring and say you won’t vote for NPP, that’s ungratefulness,” he stated.
The NPP’s Regional Research and Electoral Officer said this in an interview on A1 Radio in Bolgatanga.
He disputed assertions that the current power situation in the country is a crisis.
Daniel Ziba contended that the power outages in most cases last for just 5 minutes and therefore, cannot be said to be a crisis.
He, however, suspects a sabotage by unscrupulous persons who, he suggests, are attempting to make the government unpopular.
But Daniel Ziba argued that such ill-motivated acts will not wash and anybody who falls for them is ungrateful.
