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Mr Ben Mensah, former Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Agona West, has appealed to smaller political parties to support Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, NPP presidential candidate, to win the December 7 elections.

According to Mr Mensah, Nana Addo is the realistic opposition candidate to become the next president, looking at the wind of change blowing across the country.

Speaking to the media at Agona Duakwa, Mr Mensah, a former MCE in the John Agyekum Kufuor administration, said the NPP acknowledged the efforts of the opposition parties which were geared toward changing the government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

He said the smaller parties had done a yeoman’s job travelling to almost all the 275 constituencies to solicit votes from Ghanaians, but stressed that Nana Akufo-Addo stood tall among them to win the elections.

The former MCE for Agona Duakwa, appealed to the leaders to impress upon their supporters to rally behind the NPP to defeat the NDC to reverse the ailing economy which had brought untold hardships to the masses.

Mr. Mensah said though the NDC boasted of being social democrats it never implemented one single social intervention that alleviated the suffering of Ghanaians.

Rather, he said, social interventions made by the NPP government to reduce poverty among the masses had been collapsed, adding that it was regrettable that the capitation grant, NHIS, Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty (LEAP), free maternal health care and others had hit the rocks.

He urged Ghanaians to show the NDC government led by President John Dramani Mahama the exit.

Mr Mensah said Nana Akufo-Addo had the capacity, zeal, integrity and international connections to fulfill his one factory, one district; one million dollars each for 275 constituencies; one district one dam for northern region; and free senior high school education policy if voted into power.