Former President John Dramani Mahama has asked Ghanaians to discard the notion of electoral strongholds, indicating that the electorates are now interested in voting for a party that they believe can make their lives better.
He told National Democratic Congress delegates at Bantama in Kumasi to stop seeing the Bantama Constituency, and the Ashanti Region in general as the stronghold of the New Patriotic Party.
Mr. Mahama observed people now don’t just vote for the love of certain political parties or traditions but what that political party can do to make their lives better.
“So we should discard the notion that some places are strongholds of the NPP and therefore we cannot win those places,” he stated, adding “What the voter is looking for is the party that will govern the country properly and give them a good standard of living, as the previous NDC government was doing”.
He observed despite the lofty promises made by the NPP during in the run up to the 2016 general elections, they have saddled Ghanaians with untold hardships after nearly two years in government.
Touching on number of people who have been laid off as a result of the government’s harsh economic policies, Mr Mahama noted that it is unlikely that those who have lost their jobs will still rally behind the NPP.
This, he said is because the government has facilitated the collapse of their businesses and employment.
Mr Mahama was of the view that with hard work, unity and determination, the NDC will be able to win more votes in the Ashanti Region in the next general elections.
He has therefore charged members of the party, especially the constituency and branch executives, to help unite the party for victory in the 2020 elections.
Mr Mahama said, when elected, he will work hard to provide jobs and reduce the high cost of living in the country.
He has also promised to help constituencies own their offices, compile a database of the human resource capacity of NDC members as well as roll out a mentorship programme for the youth of the party.
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Is this ford bribe taker listening to himself? NDCs world bank is gradually becoming a rural bank...... Tell us what you have done for the Volta Region apart from the white elephant airport at Ho for the rich. What about the poor. Voters are now wide awake and cannot be taken for granted.
Electorates Now Look At What A Party Is Offering, Not Strongholds, glad you have noticed that Mr Mahama . . . that means you and your NDC are bound to be in opposition for the next 30 years are you lot has nothing good to offer to the country but chop chop, ***barred word*** and corruption . . . good bye mahama, good bye ndc
if you really have the party at heart, you would have supported someone who will go for two terms. As it stands now it is clear that you are interested in you and your parochial interest alone. you care less about the masses and the welfare of the party. you re selfish JM.
Eeeeeeh. n3n3ma? we shall see
Am surprise about JM's comments, like seriously? then we can conveniently say accept Anita's point on the ewe marginalization and of cause that of the Islamic faith. what is coming of the NDC?
TIKLE YOURSELF AND LAUGH WAE!!!
The way NDC talks about factories, it makes you wonder if they even know what a factory is. They talk of a factory like it's walking by the roadside and picking a stone just like that and viola, you have a factory. You can't even set up a table top tomatoes and onions business even like that. Now, if they have a problem with the processes in establishing a factory like licenses, registration, acquisition of land, etc, etc, and how fast it should be, they should as an opposition party, begin a debate as to how we can streamline those processes and get it done within say 72 hours. But you don't talk as if, setting up a factory is like picking up a stone from the ground. It doesn't show the kind of input that should necessarily be brought into the democratic space. It is shows a deficit and it is not nice, right and proper for a party that claims to be the largest opposition to be seen in such a light. It does our democracy no good for a party that claims to be the largest opposition to be in such a state. NDC should begin to develop the capacity to be a serious party before thinking of winning any elections in this country, because the state they are in is dangerous. It's not an attractive party at all.
SO BECAUSE YOU NO LONGER BELIEVE IN STRONGHOLDS OF POLITICAL PARTIES, YOU INTENTIONALLY FINANCED NON EWES TO ELIMINATE EWES FROM THE NDC FRONTLINE POSITIONS. ? SO IT IS TRUE. WE IN THE VOLTA REGION HAVE TAKEN NOTE OF WHAT YOU HAVE SAID TO THE ASHANTIS AND WE WILL ADVISE OURSELVES ACCORDINLY. OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKETH.