Time to vote NPP out is now – Mahama
Former President John Dramani Mahama, the NDC’s presidential candidate for the December 7 polls, has said that the time to vote out the NPP government is now.
He stressed that the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-Mahamudu Bawumia government lack the ideas to develop the country and should be rejected at the polls.
Addressing a rally at Enchi in the Aowin constituency in the Western North Region on Wednesday, former president Mahama said a vote for Dr Bawumia, the NPP’s candidate, would be an endorsement of the misgovernance Ghanaians have been subjected to in the last eight years.
For him, a vote for Dr Bawumia would be a third term in disguise for president Akufo-Addo.
According to him, since taking over the reins of power, the current regime had deteriorated the Ghanaian economy making life unbearable for the citizenry, citing the rising cost of living.
He criticised the government for abandoning the cocoa roads projects he initiated in his previous regime, assuring the people that the roads in the area would be his priority if he won the election.
For a region that produces the most of Ghana’s cocoa, Mr Mahama emphasised that it’s a sign of insensitivity to halt their cocoa road projects without any justification.
At Dadieso in the Suaman constituency, the former president noted that the mismanagement of the economy has led to Ghana losing its position as the second biggest economy in West Africa to its western neighbour, Côte d’Ivoire.
In his view, the NDC’s worst record in government is the NPP’s best and despite inheriting a robust economy, the Akufo-Addo government has borrowed Ghana into unsustainable debt.
The former president was also in Sefwi Akontombra where he told a charged crowd that the elections were about accountability and that they should hold the NPP government to its many unfulfilled promises.
He entreated the people to compare the records of the NDC and NPP in their decisions at the poll, stating that the NDC has outperformed their opponents in all sectors of the Ghanaian economy.
Additionally, he stated that the road from Dadieso to Sefwi Akontombra, which was abandoned by the NPP government, would be revisited to bring relief to the people.
In the Bodi constituency, the former President dismissed what he said has become the propaganda of the NPP that he would cancel the free senior high school policy if he wins the election.
He reiterated that the policy which he started in 2015 had come to stay and that what he was against is the poor implementation of same by the NPP government.
He assured the people that the deplorable road from Akontombra to Bodi which had been abandoned following the NDC’s exit from power would be re-awarded to bring travelling relief to residents of the area.
FROM JULIUS YAO PETETSI, ENCHI
