The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said it is confident that given the untold economic hardships Ghanaians are saddled with, the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) will be rejected in this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections.

A statement issued by Alhaji Yusif Fofana, Greater Accra Regional Director of Communications on Tuesday August 2 said in spite of the machinations of opponents of the NPP, the party will be given the chance to govern once again to lift the country from its economic challenges.

“We are very confident that the good people of Ghana, many of whom are going through untold hardship slapped on them by this incompetent NDC government, will reject them come December 7. We are thus very confident that Ghanaians would once again give NPP the opportunity to stabilise the comatose Ghanaian economy, provide jobs to the teeming youth, and ultimately, restore hope in our governance regime for God and country,” the statement said.

The statement further called on all Ghanaians to ignore the actions and inactions of a suspended member of the party, Dr Nyaho Nyaho Tamakloe, who, according to the NPP, has been campaigning for President John Dramani Mahama.

Dr Tamakloe, according to the statement, was suspended from the party and so his name cannot be associated with the NPP in any way until he is reinstated into the party. “For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to once again state unequivocally that Nyaho Tamakloe, who shamelessly describes himself as a founding member of the NPP, is not a member of the party. He is currently facing an indefinite suspension for gross misconduct and other reprehensible manoeuvrings and until same is reversed, no one should associate him with the NPP,” it stated.

“We are not oblivious of the fact that he has jettisoned all the principles that the NPP tradition stands for and has in fact sold his conscience to the governing NDC for mere pittance. He himself, once asserted that ‘blood is thicker than water’ apparently, admitting that he won't forsake his blood relations, the Mahamas, for anyone. It is, therefore, not surprising that he sees no evil, hears no evil, and will do everything to defend President Mahama and his disappointing NDC government.

“We are, therefore, not surprised that Nyaho Tamakloe has shamelessly decided to join the bandwagon created by some apologetic NDC politicians and government officials by signing on that discredited petition, which seeks to mount pressure on the president to free the Montie gang. Mind you, these are guys that were convicted of criminal offences upon their own admission of guilt by the nation's Supreme Court.”