Ex-President John Dramani Mahama, the candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has said that the party must first gain the confidence of Ghanaians in order to win the general election in 2024.
He implied that Ghanaians do not trust the NDC by saying it would be stupid for NDC members to think that the sense of despair and hopelessness felt by Ghanaians, along with the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) poor performance in office, could ensure them an easy victory at the polls.
He was addressing at the three-day NDC Europe Conference when he exhorted party members in the diaspora to contrast their public service with “the nightmarish example the NPP has set” through its deeds and platform positions.
“We must first earn the trust of the Ghanaian people. A significant section of voters has grown skeptical and are weary of our democracy and its benefits because of unmet expectations and the spectacular failure of this government,” Mr. Mahama told the European chapters’ NDC members in Amsterdam.
“We have been in power, and our record is there for all to see. We do not claim perfection, but we in the NDC can never be like the NPP. We simply cannot be and are not as reckless and contemptuous of the people of Ghana as the NPP has been,” he claimed.
The ex-President, who is staging a comeback, said the NDC had never been and would not be “as wasteful, ostentatious, and as imprudent as the NPP has been.”
“We have committed to operating a lean government that avoids the NPP’s extravagance and gets the job done more efficiently. Nothing in our historical record compares to the level of economic mismanagement that the NPP has superintended,” he promised.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
