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Yaw Buaben Asamoa<\/strong><\/p>\n THE RULING New Patriotic Party (NPP) has officially welcomed the latest political and economic outlook report of the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU), describing it as a \u201cconstructive analysis\u201d of the governance of the country.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is because objective analysis extends the democratic tenet of free speech, and provides perspectives capable of informing policy reform,\u201d the party explained in a statement issued and signed by its National Communications Director, Yaw Buaben Asamoa.<\/p>\n According to the NPP, the EIU has a record of reviewing Ghana\u2019s governance systems, especially potential political outcomes, adding, \u201cTo buttress its prediction of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) winning the presidential election and the parliamentary elections by a slim margin in 2024, the EIU touts its record of successful predictions over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n The party pointed out that the EIU hinged its prediction on the \u201cusual assumption\u201d, and said it is a fact that presidential power has been rotating over eight-year periods in the Fourth Republic.<\/p>\n \u201cIf NDC wins, it will not be news. But if the NPP wins, it would be a remarkable achievement that would demonstrate the coming of age of electoral politics in Ghana,\u201d the statement indicated.<\/p>\n It stressed that an NPP victory in 2024, christened: \u201cBreaking the Eight\u201d would be a more unusual event than an NDC victory, based on the history of elections in the Fourth Republic.<\/p>\n The NPP noted, however, that EIU introduced a \u201cnew and significant double-edged factor\u201d into the eight-year cycle, and said this is \u201cthe quality of leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEIU implies that former President Mahama\u2019s record of leadership is so poor that if he becomes the candidate, the NDC\u2019s predicted win goes up in smoke,\u201d the statement asserted.<\/p>\n It added that \u201cthis is a huge boost to the NPP\u2019s effort of \u2018Breaking the Eight\u2019, since we are confident that the NPP candidate will have a better governance record based on the cumulative achievements of the NPP in the Fourth Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n On the issue of slow governance progress, as referenced by the EIU\u2019s report as another reason for change in 2024, the NPP said the cumulative record of the party in the Fourth Republic is better on unemployment, infrastructure, and anti-corruption factors than the NDC.<\/p>\n \u201cBut more importantly, NDC has not demonstrated any policy capacity capable of turning out better and faster outcomes in the areas listed. Indeed, the tendency is for the NDC to set the country back in respect of these factors whenever the eight-year cycle kicks in. The NPP builds and the NDC destroys.<\/p>\n \u201cPolitical stability is also a product of the NPP\u2019s quiet yet hard work on the security front. Notwithstanding increased threats of regional instability spilling over into Ghana, piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, and sometimes very extremist talk from anarchic elements, the EIU predicts without hesitation that there will be political stability over the next five years. A plus for free, fair, and violence free elections,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n On the economy, the NPP asserted that no country is immune to the \u201ctwin scourges of COVID-19 and the Russia\/Ukraine conflict,\u201d and that the NDC\u2019s solution to the economic difficulties driven by these factors is to seek solace in the IMF.<\/p>\n \u201cAbandon their leadership to the excuse of the IMF and feed off the crumbs of the harsh austerity measures that would roll back all the socially sensitive policies the NPP is sustaining to cushion the Ghanaian.<\/p>\n \u201cNeeded to ride over this difficult phase is a strong bureaucratic commitment to efficiently and effectively implement the expenditure cuts and revenue measures outlined by the government. Given an impetus by increased collections on the E-Levy, reliance on external debt will gradually reduce, leading to increased growth by 2024,\u201d it intimated.<\/p>\n BY Ernest Kofi Adu<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yaw Buaben Asamoa THE RULING New Patriotic Party (NPP) has officially welcomed the latest political and economic outlook report of the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU), describing it as a \u201cconstructive analysis\u201d of the governance of the country. \u201cThis is because objective analysis extends the democratic tenet of free speech, and provides perspectives capable of informing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[8601,8247,1111,7025,1584,3137],"class_list":["post-1062750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-dailyguide","tag-eiu","tag-network","tag-npp","tag-report","tag-welcomes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}