Goosie Tanoh Outlines Historic Significance Of June 4th Uprising; Says Let Us Not Repeat The Mistakes Of The NPP 

Presidential Advisor on the 24-Hour Economy and Accelerated Export Development Programmes,
Mr. Augustus Goosie Tanoh, has outlined historic significance of June 4th uprising, stressing that it serves as Ghanaians necessary future path.

In this regard, the senior member of ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) called on Ghanaians, particularly the leaders and members of the NDC to continue to embrace the ideology 
of June 4th uprising in order to ensure resetting Ghana for accountable governance.

Mr Tanoh made the foregoing call in his solidarity message to Ghanaians during the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the June 4th uprising.

Titled his solidarity message as "Resetting Ghana for Accountable Governance, Mr Tanoh stresed that he cannot let this moment pass without expressing his solidarity and commitment to the cause "we joined 46 years ago, and making a few comments about what I see as our necessary future path."

He indicated that "We are at a critical juncture in our nation's journey — a moment that calls for sober reflection, honest appraisal, and decisive action.

 “Accountable Governance” is a mandate not just for Presidential appointees. Our party, NDC too, needs a radical reset if we are to provide Ghanaians with the leadership they deserve and desire and not degenerate into what our friends in the NPP have become. Let the members of the NDC not repeat the mistakes of the NPP," Mr Goosie Tanoh cautioned.

He pointed out that overwhelming defeat of the NPP at the 7th December 2024 polls is a wake-up call not just to the NPP but to the NDC as well and all who seek to govern our beloved country, Ghana. 

According to him, the decisive rejection of the erstwhile regime of the NPP is pregnant with lessons about how not to govern, whether it be the state, a political party or any other public institution. 

"Arrogance, vanity of power, intolerance, elitism, corruption and the flagrant disrespect for the people’s interest in pursuit of private gain, and at the expense of the welfare of Ghanaians, was tellingly and fundamentally reprimanded by the Ghanaian electorate.

 "We, as a party, must learn from this in the governance of our own affairs. The state is not to be governed for private gains but for collective upliftment and the conquest of poverty in all its aspects, including the conquest of the poverty of mind that leads to the reckless dissipation of our national resources and collective patrimony," he advised

He noted that the state is not there or designed to finance political parties through spurious and inflated contract sums. It is there to finance development and opportunity for all through investments in job creation and meaningful livelihoods, for our young men and women in particular. 

He was of view that political parties are to be financed by their members and well-wishers through strict adherence to party finance laws and conventions that seek to secure transparency and accountability.

Below is the full statement