Keep faith with NDC - Prez Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama returned to the Western Region last Saturday on the second leg of his re-election campaign tour, asking the people to keep faith with the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
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His administration,he said, had remained committed to the development of the Western Region and promised increased development in his second term.
Addressing a rally of party supporters at Asankragwa,the President said massive socio-economic infrastructure had been undertaken in various parts of the region.
Rallies
He also addressed rallies at Dadieso, Enchi, Manso-Amenfi, Wassa Akropong and Tarkwa.
Starting off from Dadieso at about 4 p.m. last Saturday, the rallies continued through the night, ending at Tarkwa at about 4 a.m. last Sunday.
Party supporters gathered in their thousands to listen to the President, who said he believed he had done enough to deserve a new mandate.
Taking a look at road development in the region under his administration, President Mahama listed roads that had been completed,as well as ongoing ones and indicated that attention would be on minor roads in his second term.
He promised that roads in the region would be the best in the country by the time he completed his second term in 2020
President Mahama took yet another jab at the NPP's Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over his statement that he did not see any good road in the Western Region.
The President said the statement that came from his main challenger in the December 7 election was part of the deception Nana Akufo-Addo had carried along in his campaign.
He urged the people not to buy into the NPP lies. The people should rather vote massively for the NDC in both the presidential and parliamentary elections so that the government would continue to provide what was the best for the Western Region.
More work
Although President Mahama touted the achievements of his government in the Western Region,he was quick to add that there was still some work to do.
"We have not said anywhere that we have finished addressing all the developmental challenges of the region. But, it is a fact that we have done a lot and a lot more will be done when we are given another term," he told excited party supporters.
President Mahama said unlike the NPP, the NDC would not promise what it could not deliver.
Taking a look into the Kufuor era, President Mahama mentioned how the NPP government made young people to line up to write their names with the promise of giving them jobs but ended up deceiving over a million young people who wrote down their names.
The President said Ghana must not go backwards. It must move forward and the NDC was the preferred choice to continue to lead the nation at this point in the country's history.
Peace
Touching on peaceful elections, President Mahama said he was committed to ensuring that Ghana came out of the election peacefully without a question.
He was clearly unhappy about the opposition's constant bashing of the Electoral Commission on the baseless suspicion that the commission was working to steal the election for the NDC.
He said knowing very well that the NDC was coasting to victory, the opposition was bent on poisoning the atmosphere with the lies.
Cocoa industry
Once he was in the Western Region which is the biggest producer of cocoa in Ghana, the President would not allow the development of the cocoa industry to escape his attention.
He mentioned the interventions the government had made to boost production and the income of farmers and pledged that the government would not deviate from the path of making the industry attractive to the youth.
