John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has declared that the party will not back the plan to move the 2024 election date from December to November.
He went on, “We [the NDC] do not think that this is being proposed in good faith.”
The words were delivered by the NDC flagbearer on Saturday, February 10, at the commencement of the Minority caucus meeting in Ho.
According to Mr. Mahama, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) had started plotting to taint the legitimacy of the elections because it was certain it would lose. One such plot point was the Electoral Commission’s sudden interest in moving the election date from December 7 to November 7, even though it had not yet shown that it was prepared to hold general elections.
Mr. Mahama stated that the District Assembly elections in December of last year served as a stark example of the commission’s lack of readiness, with minor errors and startling logistical breakdowns revealing that the body was ill-equipped to handle election management.
“Everything suggests that the NDC will win big in the 2024 elections and that the Ghanaian people will reject the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia/NPP government, which they have imposed extremely bad governance on,” Mr. Mahama continued.
He said, “This government’s corruption, mismanagement, nepotism, conceit, ineptitude, and joyous waste of public funds are all going to end at the polls later this year,” which is why the NPP is searching for shady ways to rig the results in their favor.
“We demand that the process include a system that enables all political parties and relevant stakeholders to possess the capacity to monitor that exercise in real-time, to avoid fraud and exploitation to the undue advantage of any party,” the NDC flag bearer said about the continuous registration issue raised by the Election Commission.
Mr. Mahama congratulated the Parliamentary Minority for living up to the mark and making a great effort to rein in the excesses of this administration.
Mr. Mahama urged the members of the caucus to remember that they were now the last line of defense standing between the people and an oppressive, incompetent, and desperate administration.
