The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has said supporters of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) complain too much.
“I am pleading with you, Ghanaians, especially NPP members, to stop nagging. We talk too much: ‘I’ve not gotten anything’, would you get anything if your party isn’t in office?”, she asked the supporters at a rally on Sunday, 22 December 2019 following the NPP’s National Delegates Conference.
While admonishing the NPP supporters about their constant nagging, the Anyaa Sowutuom MP recalled that: “President Kufuor once said: ‘You have more honour as a messenger in a party in power than a senior official such as a General Secretary of a party in opposition’.
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“If you see us today, ministers, party executives, you’re able to come to us for assistance; today, our children go to school free of charge. Even if you are personally not benefitting from the Free SHS, your nephew or niece or some relative is enjoying it, which frees you from that financial burden which you would have hitherto borne.
“So, please, NPP members, the “we’ve got nothing” talks are too much. Let’s all gird our loins for the New Year, which is an election-year, so that we can campaign very well.
“If any NDC supporter tells you that upon all the troubles you’re going through for the NPP, what have you got from the party, ask the person that what did they also get from all the eight years they had in office.
“Don’t let the NDC dampen our spirits. We won’t allow that because the party we belong to and the one leading us is no mean a person”, she said in her native Ga language.
The minister also said: “We’ve never had a president like Nana Akufo-Addo before”, explaining: “I say that because if you are the leader of a country, you work both at home and on the international scene”.
“I want to tell you that our President is no mean a person. You would not appreciate the weight of the President until you travel outside.
“Today, I’m respected all over the world as Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs not because of any clout of mine but because of the respect the international community has for President Nana Akufo-Addo. At UN, AU, ECOWAS meetings, everybody agrees with whatever President Akufo-Addo utters. Ghana enjoys a lot of favours in terms of financial assistance and help from the international community because of the respect the world has for President Akufo-Addo”, she noted.
source:cklassfm