{"id":620209,"date":"2019-05-16T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<figure class=\"fff post-thumbnail\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img class=\"post_layout_5_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/05\/nii-lantey-vanderpuye-2.jpg\" alt=\"EIU report pushing us to "},"modified":"2019-05-16T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T12:38:08","slug":"eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/16\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"EIU report pushing us to work harder for 2020 victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"fff post-thumbnail\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"post_layout_5_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/nii-lantey-vanderpuye-2.jpg\" alt=\"EIU report pushing us to work harder for 2020 victory \u2013 Nii Lante Vanderpuye\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for Odododiodio constituency, Nii Lante Vanderpuye has said the Economist Intelligence Unit\u2019s (EIU) prediction of victory for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2020 polls is a wake-up call for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to work harder.<\/p>\n<p>The EIU in its country report on Ghana released on May 13, 2019, said it will be difficult for the opposition NDC under former President John Dramani Mahama, to portray itself as the better custodian of Ghana\u2019s economy, especially as the country\u2019s growth outlook currently looks fairly strong.<\/p>\n<p>While acknowledging the importance of the EIU report on <strong>Citi TV<\/strong>\u2018s <strong>Breakfast Daily<\/strong> show, Mr. Vanderpuye said the party is not really perturbed about its findings.<\/p>\n<p>He said the party will just work harder to secure victory in the 2020 polls.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI have done an analysis of the EIU report over the period and I can say with all certianty that it is good, if you take a look at what has to be said, and then you work on it. As an academician, I will not dismiss any research because research are almost like a SWOT analysis of you. It gives you an opportunity to look at your strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf EIU has come out with a report that NDC is going to win 2020 elections, it would have made me much more complacent and relaxed in my approach but in opposition, for me looking for governance, looking for an opportunity to be in power and the report says you have to do more to be able to topple the government. It gives me the impetus to work harder to achieve my objective and that is exactly what we are going to do. We do not care what the EIU report says as far as winning election is concerned. We care about working hard in order to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He further indicated that if the NDC \u201ccorrects its mistakes\u201d committed in 2016, it \u201cwill be so easy\u201d for NPP to be out of power by 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Election watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Specifically, on elections, the EIU said \u201cNana Akufo-Addo, the president, and his NPP will see the country\u2019s economic situation generally improve during the remainder of their terms of office. In the presidential election, it says Akufo-Addo will face a challenge from John Mahama\u2014 Ghana\u2019s president from 2012 to early 2017, who was elected leader of the opposition NDC in February 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It said \u201cthe 2016 legislative election was won by the NPP; and the campaign was dominated by the faltering economy, which many Ghanaians still associate with Mr Mahama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, \u201cThe Economist Intelligence Unit believes that it will be difficult for the NDC under Mr Mahama to portray itself as the better custodian of Ghana\u2019s economy, especially as the country\u2019s growth outlook is fairly strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report also said they \u201cexpect Mr. Akufo-Addo and the NPP to secure re-election in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report also noted that, \u201cif the NDC can present a coherent opposition and hold the NPP to account on unfulfilled campaign promises particularly on job creation and industrialisation, where progress has been generally slow and success patchy\u2014the election could be closely contested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament for Odododiodio constituency, Nii Lante Vanderpuye has said the Economist Intelligence Unit\u2019s (EIU) prediction of victory for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2020 polls is a wake-up call for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to work harder. The EIU in its country report on Ghana released on May 13, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":620210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EIU report pushing us to work harder for 2020 victory - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/16\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"EIU report pushing us to work harder for 2020 victory - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Member of Parliament for Odododiodio constituency, Nii Lante Vanderpuye has said the Economist Intelligence Unit\u2019s (EIU) prediction of victory for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2020 polls is a wake-up call for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to work harder. The EIU in its country report on Ghana released on May 13, [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/16\\\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/16\\\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036\"},\"headline\":\"EIU report pushing us to work harder for 2020 victory\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-05-16T12:38:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/16\\\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":533,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/16\\\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"articleSection\":[\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/16\\\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/16\\\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/16\\\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\\\/\",\"name\":\"EIU report pushing us to work harder for 2020 victory - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/16\\\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/16\\\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-05-16T12:38:08+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/16\\\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/16\\\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036\",\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ghana News\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"EIU report pushing us to work harder for 2020 victory - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/16\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"EIU report pushing us to work harder for 2020 victory - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"The Member of Parliament for Odododiodio constituency, Nii Lante Vanderpuye has said the Economist Intelligence Unit\u2019s (EIU) prediction of victory for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2020 polls is a wake-up call for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to work harder. The EIU in its country report on Ghana released on May 13, [&hellip;]","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ghana News","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/16\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/16\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\/"},"author":{"name":"Ghana News","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#\/schema\/person\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036"},"headline":"EIU report pushing us to work harder for 2020 victory","datePublished":"2019-05-16T12:38:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/16\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\/"},"wordCount":533,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/16\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","articleSection":["Politics"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/16\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/16\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/16\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\/","name":"EIU report pushing us to work harder for 2020 victory - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/16\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/16\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2019-05-16T12:38:08+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#\/schema\/person\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/16\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/16\/eiu-report-pushing-us-to-work-harder-for-2020-victory\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#\/schema\/person\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036","name":"Ghana News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ghana News"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}