Kofi Akpaloo, the founder and presidential candidate from Ghana’s Independent Peoples Party (IPP), has promised to run the country as a business and turn around its dwindling economic fortunes if elected during the presidential election set for Nov. 7, 2016.

Akpaloo said that the West African nation is suffering from mismanagement and that he will run it like a business enterprise to ensure it is much more efficient is reducing people’s suffering, GhanaWeb reported.

“Countries like Ghana that is not being run business-like are suffering,” he said. “Ghana should be run like a business and I will run Ghana like a business.”

Ghana is headed into for a vote at the back of an economy crisis that has turned the once thriving democracy into a pale shadow of its former self.

It is experiencing an economic slump and growing social and political discontentment due to significant increases in petrol, water and electricity charges. There were wide-spread protests in the country in February 2016.

In 2015, economic growth slowed to 4.1 percent, from a peak of 14 percent in 2011, as the main exports, gold and oil yielded lower revenue due to a global commodities prices slump.

Corruption in the country has also increased, while unemployment has risen to 48 percent, nearly a double what it was two years ago, according to Ghana Unemployed Graduates Association.

An electricity crisis that hit the nation from 2013, causing widespread blackouts, has since eased, but a 59 percent jump in electricity charges has made it harder to do business in the West African nation.

Akpaloo stoked controversy when he said that if elected president he will sack all employees at the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Limited, due to what termed as under-performance and mismanagement.

“Our problem now is ECG and if I were the president I will sack all the staff of ECG because they are not performing,” he said during a talk show on Onua FM.

Akpaloo is hoping to ride on IPP’s manifesto dubbed ‘IPP Victory 2016; A new plan for jobs and wealth creation’ to end the ruling National Democratic Congress’ eight year reign in power. The only problem is that IPP is not popular in Ghana and might not earn him the votes he needs to be President

The 45-year old Akpaloo is an accountant based in Ireland. He contested Manhyia Parliamentary seat in 2004 as an independent candidate but lost.

In May 2016, he raised controversy when he said that schools and parents who insist school girls cut their hair short deprive the hairdressing industry of a key product, leading to loss of economic livelihoods to many Ghanaians.