The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. John Dramani Mahama, says he is optimistic he will win this year’s polls.
According to him, Ghanaians will vote massively for him in the 2024 general election to take over the governance of the country and revamp the ailing economy that has deprived the citizenry of decent lives.
According to him, wherever he had visited as part of his ‘building Ghana tour’, Ghanaians requested from the NDC to protect their votes to enable them to change the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government.
They claim the NPP government has brought untold hardship to them and that the same message was what he received in the Volta region.
Addressing members of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs (VRHC) in Ho, as part of his two-day ‘building Ghana tour’, the former President said throughout his political career, citizens have put more hopes in the NDC now, than they had in the past.
Describing it as a genuine call for change, Mr. Mahama assured the people of the Volta region and Ghanaians in general that when given the opportunity in the 2024 general election, the NDC would revive the economy.
He assured the people that the revival of the economy would bring life back to the citizenry, who would then appreciate a sound economy that would encourage investment in the country.
He stated that when the NDC wins the pending general election, job creation will be taken more seriously, by investing in the private sector to help create more jobs.
Mr. Mahama explained that the NDC’s 24-hour economy is aimed at addressing youth unemployment and stressed that the it would not be the first in the world, as developed countries have been practicing it over the years.
He said it would be practiced effectively without the formulation of laws to implement it, but rather deliberate policies and incentives would be put in place for the private sector to ensure that it succeeds.
He observed that Ghanaians have witnessed the performances of the NPP and the NDC governments and that is why they were calling on the NDC to protect their votes to ensure that they win the 2024 general election and rescue the country from the economic hardship being experienced.
The NDC presidential hopeful also called for fairness in fighting corruption to enable anti-corruption institutions to embark on their work without hindrance, saying an NDC government would hold the NPP government accountable.
He also said officials of an NDC government would be held equally accountable for their deeds while in office.
Mr. Mahama made it clear that there was no government that brought more development to the people of the Volta region than the NDC.
He buttressed his assertion by saying most of the electricity connections to towns and villages, small water systems to villages, rehabilitation and construction of many roads among others, were done by the NDC.
He continued that the NDC government built the Ho central market, built a regional hospital in Ho, built the first public university, the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), an airport and that when the NDC wins the election, it will expand facilities at the UHAS to enable it to admit more students.
The former president also assured the people of the Volta region that when it wins the 2024 election, the NDC government will build a modern market at Aflao to promote trade liberalisation between Ghana and the Republic of Togo. It would also turn Ohawu Agriculture College into a university, expand irrigation in the region and start exploration of oil and gas in the Volta Basin.
The Vice President of the VRHC, Togbe Patamia Dzekle III, wished the NDC Presidential Candidate well in his campaign and appealed to him to bring the issue of illegal mining, popularly known as ‘galamsey’, which had destroyed the environment to an end, if he wins the election.
Togbe Patamia Dzekle said mismanagement of the natural resources of the country should be a matter of concern to all. This, he said, should be stopped if he wins the election and the attitude of what he described as ‘business as usual’ must be avoided, because it has affected the development of the country over the years.
