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The New Patriotic Party went on the offensive on Tuesday launching a frontal assault on the John Mahama-led NDC government by calling on the electorate not to renew his mandate saying a vote for the current administration is "a vote for corruption, lies and debts". Addressing a press conference in Accra, the NPP catalogued a litany of botched agreements involving President Mahama, and accused him of losing for the nation, huge sums of money in pursuit of those deals which the NPP described as questionable. Mr Yaw Buabeng Asamoah, a Deputy Director of Communications who addressed the press conference, described the sitting president as suffering from a "chronic case of indecisiveness�, adding that he (Mahama) must not be entrusted with the task of presiding over the country for the next four years. "Ladies and gentlemen, the only political risk that Ghanaians need to insure themselves against is an NDC government led by John Dramani Mahama. The only insurance against such a risk is to vote out the NDC on December 7....President is noted for giving access to every businessman so long as you are not Ghanaian. He gave access to the Chinese to dig the grave of our late President, Prof John Atta Mills. He has given access again to the Chinese to build a market in Cape Coast. When STX failed, he did not turn to Ghanaian contractors, no. He looked down, to South Africa to bring GUMA....With GUMA also failing, he has now turned to a group of Nigerians, with some very dubious record in Nigeria of running away with public funds, to now build us houses and, again, at inflated cost....In Mahama, Ghanaians have a leader who does not believe in Ghanaians. Our message to President John Dramani Mahama is simple: MR PRESIDENT, GHANA IS NOT FOR SALE," the NPP Communicator said. Below is a copy of the statement read by Mr Bubeng Asamoah.