President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has pledged the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is going to negotiate a very good deal with the IMF unlike what it inherited from the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration.
The deal the NPP is working on with the IMF, he said, will revive the economy and continue the task of building an even stronger economy that Ghana has ever had before.
Speaking at the NPP delegates’ conference at the Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday 16th July, 2022 President Akufo-Addo assured the government is in a position not only to improve and negotiate but implement a good arrangement.
The NPP, he said, has a tradition of taking Ghana out of difficulties and stressed the government has done it before and is going to do it again; and in so doing the strong economy that is going to be built will be the one to provide the platform for NPP victory in 2024.
He said, “We took Ghana out of HIPC in President Kufuor’s time; we took Ghana out of the derailed IMF programme of 2015.”
“Our party was the one that made it possible for us to survive the COVID pandemic with one of the lowest mortality rates of any government of any country anywhere in the world.”
According to him, it is a historic duty to maintain the NPP in office under a new candidate and a new leader with the same commitments to good governance, sound economic management, respect for human rights and the rule of law.
An important step towards that vision, he said, is Saturday’s conference to elect new national officers to steer the affairs of the party going into the next elections and urged the delegates to elect executives that can and will hold the party together.
He said, “Let us make sure that we elect the men and women who can hold us together, who can enable us to work together and who will be able to provide the leadership for the party to be able to surmount our mantra ‘breaking the 8’ and breaking the 8 we shall in 2024.
He slammed former President John Dramani Mahama for taking the country through what he described as a derailed IMF programme.
The NPP administration, he said, inherited this derailed IMF programme but worked hard to exit the country and was in the process of building a strong economy until COVID-19 and its consequences set in.