by Maggie Fick in Saboba
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Bumping along potholed roads and fording rivers where bridges were promised, but never built, Nana Akufo-Addo is on the election trail in Ghana’s rural north.
Atop wooden platforms and inside the “palaces” of traditional chiefs, Mr Akufo-Addo, the leading opposition candidate, strikes a populist tone as he promises factories, dams and large cash transfers to every constituency.
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This “is not a poor country”, he tells supporters in the small town of Saboba, as he pledges to form a government that “looks after our Ghana and not after our own pockets”.
Yet when Ghanaians vote in parliamentary and presidential polls in December, they will be doing so as their nation grapples with its worst economic slowdown in more than two decades. . . . .
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