EIU report: NPP can break eight-year power cycle, says Oppong Nkrumah

The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has downplayed projections by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) which say it expects that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will win the 2024 elections.

According to him, the government is focused on bettering the lives of Ghanaians between now and 2024 so that Ghanaians will retain the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in power come 2024.

Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Sunday 21 March 2021, the minister argued that the report serves only as a “guiding note” and must be treated as such.

He said the prediction by the London-based research institution is informed by the previous eight-year cycle of exchange of government power between the NPP and the NDC.

“We are very much aware of this tendency but we believe that this whole thing where, every eight years, even when the country is making progress … power changes hands … is something that can actually set us back,” Oppong Nkrumah said.

“That is why this administration intends to work very hard to retain the confidence of the people by the time that our second-term mandate is done – so that we can break the eight- year cycle.”

It’s possible

He added: “So, it will ordinarily be a risk but it is a phenomenon that we are keen to break. And this expectation that every eight years power changes hands, which is what is informing what they have put out there, is one that we intend to break.”

Touching on the ways Ghana’s current leaders intend to transform the lives of Ghanaians, Oppong Nkrumah said that the Akufo-Addo government seeks to re-engineer a recovery of the economy from where it is now.

The aim is to get the economy back on a growth trajectory, create jobs and transform the general outlook of the economy, he said.

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