Former President John Dramani Mahama has said the method in which the New Patriotic Party (NPP) used to win the 2016 general elections offered the National Democratic Congress (NDC) a good chance to win the 2020 general elections.
According to him, the NPP “used lots of sweet words, I do not think they thought through the promises or had any real intention to fulfil the promises”
The Former President said one of the important things that determined that an industry was successful or not, was location of the industry, and indicated that the location of the industry must not conform to political boundaries. “So if you want to set up an industry, one of the factors is close to the source of raw materials, and you must look at the value chain.”
Mr Mahama who was speaking at the newly created Bolgatanga East District of the Upper East Region as part of his three-day tour of the region to canvass for votes from the party’s delegates, said “if you want to set up a cotton factory, you must look at where they grow cotton, and that growing cotton might be four districts not one district.”
According to the Former President, “the unfulfilled promises” of the NPP shook the faith of Ghanaians in Ghana’s democracy, adding that “it makes Ghanaians believe that politicians just lie, and they will never fulfil the promises that they make.”
He insisted that the NDC in every election promised what they could do for the people, and emphasised “when we say we can do, we promise, and we deliver,” and noted that every constituency has its peculiar needs, “not every constituency want a dam, some constituencies want hospital or a polyclinic that is their priority, other constituencies want roads.”
“NDC, we do things by planning, when we created the 45 new District Assemblies, we knew that the District Chief Executives will need offices to operate from. All the new Districts we created, we built District Assembly offices in all the 45 Districts.”
He said that was not the case with the NPP government, and accused it of renting offices to house newly created District Assemblies for when they created new Districts earlier. “Now they have created some new more Districts, no offices.”
Mr Mahama said the NDC must be proud of itself because its track record was good, and the people of Ghana recognised that, “I am convinced that with the right leadership which is in your hands as the electoral college, we will make an impact, and with God on our side, we will win the elections of 2020.”
He appealed to the delegates to vote massively for him because a massive vote would send a signal to the NPP that they were solidly behind the candidate, and they were taking the power from them back to the NDC. “That is why no single vote should get lost,” he added.
Source: GNA
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JOHN MAHAMA YOU PROMISED 200 DAY SHS 'E' BLOCK YOU COULD BUILT ONLY 40. YOU PROMISED ONE TIME NHIS PREMIUM IT NEVER CAME TO PASS.YOU AGAIN PROMISED GHANAIANS DUMSOR WAS GOING TO BE THE THING OF THE PAST YOU COULD NOT FIXED IT SO WHAT AGAIN WILL YOU SAY THAT GHANAIANS WILL BELIEVE YOU? YOU WILL REMAIN A BIG LIER IN OUR BOOKS.DR SAID WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU JUST WIN THE PRIMARIES AND COME TO THE NATIONAL THEN WE WILL SHOW YOU YOUR SMOOTHNESS LEVEL.
Mahama thinks he will win because of what Prophet Nigel Gaisie said about him and the NDC.
JM ka wo ano pa do kakra atse. ere ye aye dodo.
John mahama are you a flagbearer or an aspiring flagbearer? so this was the guy who called himself the president of the republic of Ghana in 2012-2016? I can't believe this? this man is very shallow minded. What a backward creature is this? somebody tell John mahama we will never, ever choose a drunkard like him over Nana Addo. He should stop drinking and have peaceful mind to think for himself, he shouldn't allow the alcohol to dictate to him. He is not making any sense at all ever since he started this his bullsh*t campaign ! he should ask Asiedu Nketiah if ndc biometric machine could even register 2 million real and authentic Ghanaians for the ndc! he should time choookooo! for the defeat ahead of him will be unthinkable!if he thinks those juju can vote and put him in power we all live to see, Ghanaians voted and voted massively to boot you away and Ghanaians will be the most st*pid people on this planet to bring you back! they will never even make that mistake,hw3 ! Ghanaians volunteered to protect their ballots so they can boot you away so take your frustration and desperation from our working government, you think Ghanaians are ready for your insults,your arrogance and disrespect to our leaders and everyone in Ghana. Your impunity in ste*ling ! you people don't check yourselves right! who in your government was responsible and descent for Ghanaians to bring you back? your utterances were among those factors you were booted out ,you are very insulting and backward! Akufo Addo is civil so will never enter your gutters with you! find your class to deal with and stop making yourself boring, comedian and a political joker. You going about with no plan,no vision,no clue nothing than Akufo Addo is this, the government is that and do you think the good people of Ghana listen to your rantings to take you serious? those you are talking to are the very people you talked to before 2016 and your miserable exit. There will be no difference because they are the same thing,the same ndc who think of elections but not the future and the next generation. You can bring all ndc members in Ghana and claim they are NPP members who have defected the results of 2020 will be the same 30%. Ghanaians are not f000**000ls as you think.