President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is urging Ghanaians to re-elect the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), saying the nation's future should be entrusted to achievers, and not failures. It was imperative that the people critically analysed the alternatives at hand as the December 7 elections connoted a defining moment for the people to take their destiny into their own hands, he cautioned. The President, addressing a ceremony to launch the NPP's manifesto for the upcoming polls, in Takoradi, Western Region, stated that this was not the time for experiments in respect of the nation's governance. He said in Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the Party's Presidential Candidate, and Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the Running Mate, the nation could be assured of two competent leaders who had the capability to meeting the expectations of the people. 'When you talk of these two people, you are talking about achievers. 'They will be worthy successors to the Offices of President and Vice President,' he noted. The President elaborated that there was the need to continue with the country's upward development trajectory, citing the gains made under his Administration in the areas of good governance, education, health, digitalisation, infrastructural growth, technology, among others. The NPP's 2024 Manifesto prescribes a stable democracy, with a peaceful, united and democratic nation dedicated to the promotion of the welfare, freedom and prosperity of its citizens. It seeks a country whose governance is imbued with the principles of the rule of law, respect for human rights and social justice, pledging to revive the economy, fight graft, and boost private sector development. The Manifesto lays out measures by the Party to leverage technology, digitalisation, data and systems for inclusive economic growth, if retained in the impending elections. It provides detailed plans to improving all aspects of the country's development agenda-job creation, agriculture, energy, youth and women's development, vulnerable groups, nat ural resource development, environmental protection, industrialisation and sustainable economic growth. The NPP, a centre-right and liberal-conservative political party, has since 1992, after Ghana ushered in the Fourth Republican Constitution, has been one of the two dominant parties, with its leading rival being the centre-left National Democratic Congress (NDC). The Party goes into the polls with an apparent stiff competition from the main opposition NDC as the country struggles to overcome the recent economic downturn. Ghana recently had to turn to the International Monetary Fund for a US$3 billion bailout after its already strained finances buckled under the economic fallout from COVID-19 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. President Nana Akufo-Addo is convinced the NPP government was capable of turning the corner, saying in the flagbearership duo of Dr Bawumia and Dr Opoku Prempeh, the country had two competent leaders to drive Ghana towards prosperity, if given the nod. 'It is exactly the leadership that we need to take us to the next level,' he noted. Source: Ghana News Agency