In response to setbacks in implementing a common national development plan, New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer for election 2024, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has pledged to align his policies with the national agenda if elected president.

The Vice President believes that governance inconsistencies are largely due to the absence of a cohesive development plan.

The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has launched is latest agenda known as the Vision 2057, outlining a new developmental framework following previous failed plans in the past years.

NDPC Director-General, Dr Kojo Essien Mensah-Abrampa, is advocating for a legally binding instrument to ensure continuity across successive governments.

“For now it says political parties are to continue programmes and projects initiated by the previous political party as far as possible, and this is what you need a constitutional instrument to define and the definition lies in how you say it.

"Because if you have a wish, and if you have a plan, and if you have a framework, then as far as possible, it's not farfetched, because you have a document with defined results that is expected of any political party once you are in it.

He said the committee is already working on this initiative to make the development plans binding.

During a recent engagement with labour unions, Dr Bawumia expressed his support for this approach.

In an interview with Joy News, Dr Bawumia said, “We should all as political parties try and buy into a national development plan. I think they have various broad contours, in areas such as education and health, industrialisation, environment, and so on that we can all agree as political parties so that we can amend article 87 of the Constitution.

“And also the NDPC Act, for our manifestos to go by the agreed contours, the broad contours that we would have agreed and have consensus so that it doesn't matter which government comes in, there will be consistency in the implementation of education policy health policy, and so on.

"So you don't have to go back, come again, go back and come again. One government will come and it's three years Senior High School another will say four years and all of that, the inconsistency doesn't help our country, and so I would like to see us move in that direction.”