ONLY NPP CAN SUSTAIN MACROECONOMIC STABILITY (Page 15)

STORY: Tim Dzamboe, Ho

A PRESIDENTIAL aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Alan Kyeremateng, has said that apart from the NPP any other government that assumed the reins of power will only dismantle the achievements made in ensuring macro economic stability, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and other reforms and initiatives on health education, and others.
He said what the NPP needed to do was to build a solid foundation which would help accelerate the growth of the economy within a period of 10 and 12 years.
According to him, no country in the world had achieved any superlative performance in growth without a sustained period of stabilisation , and that the performance of the NPP government in seven years was enough evidence for it to be retained in power for more years to complete and sustain the period of stabilisation and growth of the economy.
Mr Kyeremateng was addressing media practitioners in Ho after a tour of 15 constituencies in the Volta Region in the campaign to win the flagbearership of the party in the delegates conference slated for December 22 this year.
He said from his own assessment, by the end of the second round campaign tour of the Volta Region, he was more convinced that if the region alone was going to vote he would be declared the flag bearer.
He said the challenge for the leadership was not for contestants alone but the entire party membership and that as a strategist in the present government he would shift emphasis on to the productive sectors of the economy when elected as the flag bearer and eventually become the head of state.
Mr Kyeremanten promised to build a strong grassroots network for the party and would ensure that no gap existed between the top and bottom in governance.
On campaign funding, he said it was a critical issue in the body politic internationally and that everybody had his own way of mobilising funds to finance his campaign and the ability to mobilise funds was crucial to a successful campaign.
"If you want to be successful you must be able to fund a campaign. I don't see that as splashing of money", he said.
Mr Kyeremateng said the negative propaganda in politics made people spend money based on their own beliefs and strategies and that he spent money effectively on campaigns in order not to waste resources.
He said all the delegates had made up their minds on their choice of candidate and money would have little influence on their choice.
Mr Kyeremateng stressed that he was a frontrunner in the race and intended working towards winning in the first round of the ballot but said in politics anything could happen and, therefore, there was the possibility to make room for an alliance with others to win if there should be any second balloting.
He said strategically, he was one step ahead in the campaign, and that he was preparing for the delegates conference, as well as the national elections, adding that with the present focus he would win the flagbearership contest.