Ghanaians are fervently preparing for the 2016 General Election with political parties intensifying electioneering campaign to win power to govern the country. The flagbearer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), President John Dramani Mahama, has send his campaign trail to the Western Region, visiting markets, schools and communities, and inspecting government projects, all to solicit votes of the electorate, to win a second term to govern the country.
The President’s visit to the region comes right after the flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, had ended a five-day tour of the area, and a day after the NDC launched its election campaign in Cape Coast, capital of the Central Region. The party’s National Campaign Coordinator, Kofi Adams, NDC Deputy General Secretary, at the launch, expressed confidence that President Mahama has done enough to win another term of office.
Mr. Adams said: “for the transformation agenda to succeed, you need a transformational leader, for sustainable development to go on, you need John Dramani Mahama… We are looking at growth that is supported with transformation. Of course we don’t think that the elections would be a walkover, but we believe that we have done a lot. We have done so much that we are going to win this election.”
Ghana’s former President Jerry John Rawlings and founding father of the NDC, cautioned his party against the NPP at the campaign launch. He asked the NDC not to contest the 2016 polls on the terms of the NPP, advising that “reach into the principles and the values, which emerged out of the circumstances that gave birth to us.”
George Agyemang-GhanaQuest.com
