The founder of the All People’s Congress (APC) party, Dr Hassan Ayariga, has advised the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to focus on finishing their eight-year term on a good note rather than being power-hungry.
The comment of the politician on Angel FM’s Anↄpa Bↄfoↄ morning show came on the back of the ruling party’s resolution to change the narrative about the eight-year cycle the governance system of Ghana is characterized with.
To spur their efforts to retain power in 2024, the NPP came up with the catchphrase “breaking the 8” amid the speculations and the campaigns for a replacement for the leader of the party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Dr Hassan Ayariga believes that the party’s actions in the effect of their aspiration are detracting the government’s attention from its mandate which is to work for the welfare of the Ghanaians.
Not farfetched, the living condition of the ordinary Ghanaian has worsened following the rocketed prices of products and services on the market in the past few months.
The situation forced many to hit the streets in protest against the government while others including government employees resorted to strikes to register their displeasures.
Citing an example, the 2020 APC flagbearer said, “this Salah [Eid-ul-Adha celebration], people were buying animals for GH₵10,000, GH₵15,000. You can’t even get a proper goat to buy at GH₵3,000; you have to get GH₵5,000. What is the salary of workers to be able save that to kill a ram on Salah day? Those are the fundamentals”.
He added that Ghanaians can no longer purchase a litre of oil on the market since it has turned into gold thereby compounding their problems.
These, he believes, should be the concerns of the government, spurring them to action to alleviate the people’s plights, rather than their desire to retain power in 2024.
“Oil has become more expensive than any commodity on the market today. Oil has become gold. The price of a litre of oil you can’t buy. Then have we have a country like Ghana; we can’t produce oil, nothing.
“Then we talk about we are breaking the eight. You think of finishing the eight first; breaking the eight is a much more difficult thing. The most important thing is, will you be able to finish the eight?” he quizzed in conclusion.
