The 2024 election is going to be manned with the keenest of vigilance to ensure the true will of the people will reflect the outcome of the polls, flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has advised leadership of the party.
He has asked party executives, parliamentary candidates and Members of Parliament, not to delegate the supervision of the polls to their subordinates, for the will of the people to be subverted.
Speaking at an ‘End of Year Get-Together with party leadership, Members of Parliament and Parliamentary Candidates’ Thursday, December 21, 2023, Mr. Mahama indicated that the party should be prepared not to leave any stone unturned, as it seeks to wrestle power from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
“As many of you must volunteer to participate in the process as possible, –don’t say I’m the Chairman, the treasuerer so I have no role to play. Nobody is going to sleep on the night of 7th December 2024.
“Don’t say it is the work of the elections directorate and so I’m going home. Everybody will stay awake in every constituency until you’ve gathered all your results and got all your pink sheets before we all go to sleep,” he cautioned the gathering, adding that next year’s polls is going to be guarded with all the party’s might.
“This is going to be the most tightly guarded election in the history of Ghana. We are going to make sure that not even a mosquito, –apologies to General [Johnson Asiedu Nketia] will be able to pass through the net that we are going to put around this election. We are going to leave no stone unturned to make this election a true reflection of the will of the people.
“We are going to make sure that the peoples’ votes are protected. I’ve heard enough of people walking up to me that we voted for you but we did not protect our votes. We are going to protect their votes and make sure that the outcome of this election will be a reflection of what the people of Ghana want,” he assured.
John Mahama faces a fierce competition with the NPP’s Mahamudu Bawumia in the 2024 elections as he seeks a second term of office after being ousted from power in the 2016 and 2020 polls by President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
