Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, a flagbearer candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has brashly said that he will lead the NPP to break the “8” and go forward to make Ghana a successful country.

As a result, he has urged NPP delegates to choose him as the party’s flagbearer.

The former Ghanaian Minister of Food and Agriculture claimed to hundreds of party members that his impressive record as a United Nations Agriculture Economist for almost two decades and as Minister of Food and Agriculture of Ghana is proof of his ability.

When a group of farmers and friends gave him nomination forms for the party’s presidential primary that they had chosen for him from the NPP Headquarters as a symbol of support for his presidential ambition, Dr. Afriyie Akoto made this observation on Monday.

He continued by saying that during his six years as the minister of food and agriculture, one of the most sensitive positions in the nation, he established a solid basis for the nation’s future prosperity.

For instance, he single-handedly launched the Tree Crop Development Authority (TCDA), a program that focuses on six tree crops, including oil palm, shea, cashew, mango, coconut, and rubber, and which has the potential to bring in US$12 billion yearly for the nation.

“I used to work with the UN system for 18 years and I have worked around with all kinds of governments. I haven’t seen any government which has been able to develop its economy by borrowing both locally and externally. It is always the generation of domestic production and the alternative we have is agriculture production for export and domestic food security. So, it is the right thing to do and it is something that I am going to preach and preach and preach to everybody that if I become the President of Ghana, this country will use most of its public resources to generate the capacity that agriculture has so that we can get more foreign exchange and local currency to finance the development of other sectors of the economy”, he stated.

“I will not let you down. I will go all out and clinch victory for ourselves and NPP and Ghana will become a better place for us”, he posited.