The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is confident Ghanaians will keep it in power come 2016.
According to the party, the change Nigerians voted for has already occurred in Ghana, during the 2000 elections and therefore, it will not repeat itself.
[contextly_sidebar id=”m7Us59ef5cbrDv3frJAtBz1CdtEfgbkF”]The NDC’s National Organizer, Kofi Adams on Eyewitness News said: “This is the first time Nigerians have had the opportunity of change – changing from one party to another…Ghana experienced that form of change in 2000 when it was the thinking that whatever it was, let us change whether the person is good or not…that type of change is not going to happen in Ghana again.”
He was certain that there is no better alternative to the current government and if “Ghanaians will vote for the purposes of change, then it should be moving from something that is not good to something that is good but as we speak today, the alternative is worse.”
Since Nigerians voted out their incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan for his failure to tackle corruption and other major economic issues affecting Nigerians, especially the fight against Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, there have been predictions that the Mahama-government will also be voted out in Ghana’s 2016 presidential elections, after failing to resolve the socio-economic challenges facing Ghanaians.
The NDC’s General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia in an interview on Wednesday called persons making such predictions as “Lotto forecasters” and served notice that the NDC is not afraid of losing elections.
According to Kofi Adams, President John Mahama is “one of the good things that have equally happened to this country in the 4th republic.”
He noted that despite the economic hardship in the country, President Mahama is doing “so well” in dealing with it just as he is frantically working to resolve the energy crisis which has persisted for over 3 years.
“It is a fact that the energy crisis has come to affect a number of things but here you have a President who is not sleeping on that. We admit it is causing a lot of pain in the system but government is working very hard and we will deal with that problem so it is not the same as in the case of Nigeria,” he assured.
Kofi Adams promised that the energy crisis will be over by 2016 and of course, “Ghanaians will not vote out John Mahama.”
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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