The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has said he is ready to work with the people of Ghana to fix the challenges confronting the nation and put Ghana on track to ensure fair distribution of opportunities for all and not just a few family and friends if he becomes president again after the December polls.
According to Mr Mahama, Ghanaians are dissatisfied with the “insensitivity” of the Akufo-Addo-led administration.
To this end, he said the NDC has a responsibility to develop credible polices to make life easier and comfortable for the ordinary Ghanaian.
Speaking at the launch of an electronic payment platform to enable party members and sympathisers to contribute financially to their 2020 campaign in Accra on Thursday, 16 January 2020, Mr Mahama told party executives and sympathisers that: “Ghanaians are dissatisfied with the corruption, nepotism, dishonesty, hardship, job losses, insincerity, insensitivity of the Akufo-Addo administration.”
He noted that as a social democratic party, the NDC has a solemn responsibility to continue to develop alternatives and credible policies that makes a radical departure from the status quo.
Mr Mahama stated that Ghanaians are looking forward to the NDC to step up to the plate to wrestle power from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government “that has promised so much but has delivered so little.”
The former president described the NPP government as a “government that has benefitted from so much in terms of resources but has so little to show, a government that has reinstated the culture of silence - closing radio stations and media houses, intimidating journalists and persecuting critics of government, a government that pledged to protect the public purse but has opened it up for systematic looting and abuse through profligacy and ostentatious expenditure, a government which said it will provide inclusive governance but has ended up practicing the worst form of nepotism and state capture, a government that is all too quick to collapse Ghanaian businesses when other cost effective options could have been used to correct the challenges in the financial sector.
“A government that is cooking the books to show economic numbers that are better than the reality, debt and arrears are being hidden as footnotes and treated below the line and off budget but the recent IMF report has discovered these numbers and have included them in the budget numbers and, therefore, show a deficit of 7% rather than the artificial 4.7% that this government has continued touting.
“A government that has divided this nation more than ever in the history of our country.”
Mr Mahama assured Ghanaians that this is a responsibility that the NDC will take seriously and will step up to the plate and face these challenges frontally.
“We will fix the problems and put Ghana on track to ensure fair distribution of opportunities for all Ghanaians and not just a few family and friends. I am ready, very ready to work with you, the people of Ghana, to deliver our country from this abyss,” he added.
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Master you have no message. Who put Ghana in the Abyss in the first place? Nansins
@ Ken, wise up. Voting against Akuffo Addo for Mahama will not bring you back your job nor pay back your Menzgold savings-it wont happen. Your best bet/chance of getting a new job and eventual payment of your MenzGold deposits is to retain NPP not to bring back NDC....That will be like adding insult to your injury or the proverbial "aggravation of your wound/injury due to irritation by the housefly". Wise up!!
Mr.incompetent Mahama! Coming back to fix what? In your dreams Mr.incompetent man. You still think Ghanaians have short memory. No Mr.incompetent Mahama, Ghanaians still remember that you are the worst president ever to have ruled Ghana and Ghanaians will not make the mistake to give you another chance to come and loot and share. You do not know how to govern Mr.incompetent Mahama. In sha Allah you will not get the chance to rule Ghana again because that will be a disaster.
TO MY POINT AND THAT IS MY REAL FACT. IF THIS MAN mahama COMES TO POWER AGAIN, I WILL COME DOWN TO GHANA AND PICK ALL MY FAMILIES TO ABROAD. HOW COULD SOME GHANAIANS THINK ABOUT THE COMING OF mahama. I AM SORRY TO BE A GHANAIAN
How can right thinking Ghanaians who understand governance vote for this man again? Mahama has been the most ineffective leader this country has ever had. How could he look on for all the mess that happened under his watch to happen? If not for tribalism and the feeling of being slighted by some why would anyone follow him? I can bet my last cedi that the founder of his party won't give him his vote so why should majority of Ghanaians?
Her Mahama, You will fix what? if you know fixing why didnt you fix it when you were a vice president cum president. We should give you another to come and steal our money and take huge perdiem u think Ghanaians are ***barred word***. Please go and farm and enjoy what you stole from state coffers with your kick backs and over bloated contract. Hey you Mahama if you know fixing why did you gave the country to IMF? PLEASE ANSWER IT BEFORE U CAN GET MY VOTE.
mahama and nana are all fuulishh & use.less. Both of them should go to h3ll and leave ghanaians alone
AM TIRED OF YOU MR REPAIRER. YOU TOOK US TO IMF . GHANA HAVE TO GATHER ALL THE ECONOMICS BRAINS IN THIS COUNTRY AT SEN-CHI TO BRAINSTORM ON SOLUTION. AND SOMEONE CAME TO TAKE US OUT OF IT. WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS YOU FIXING MR REPAIRER?
MASSA STOP THE I WILL FIX THE PROBLEMS, AND TELL US WHAT YOU WILL DO. ALWAYS FIXING PEOPLES PROBLEMS BUT NOT SAYING WHAT YOU WILL DO, SO WE COULD HOLD YOU TO IT. YOU ARE ANNOYING ME. CAN'T YOU BE BOLD FOR ONCE AND TELL US WHAT YOU WILL DO? PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS ON AKUFO ADDO BECAUSE OF WHAT HE SAID HE WILL DO WHEN HE COMES TO POWER, BUT YOUR ARE AFRAID TO TELL US WHAT YOU WILL DO, SO THAT PEOPLE CAN HOLD YOU TO IT.
By heart talk nkoaaa.