A former Minister for the Interior under the Mills-Mahama administration, Mr Martin Amidu, has advised the electorate to vote for candidates whose promises are feasible.
He cautioned that failure to do so would result in the election of leaders who have no intention of serving their (electorate) interests.
“As Ghana gets closer to the 2024 election season the NPP and the NDC are deploying various deceptive tools to win over the electorate whom they will each forget after securing the votes of the electorate to come to power for the next three years until the next election year,” he wrote in an opinion piece published on 3news.com.
The former Deputy Attorney-General under the Rawlings administration advised that, “The 2024 elections should be won by established facts and projections with high degrees of probability for actualization. Unfortunately, every day one just hears promise upon promise from the two major political parties without any demonstrable ability to implement those promises once elected to power.”
The immediate past Special Prosecutor noted that, “The political elite from various political parties see the election season as a period of deception instead of canvassing for votes on proven record and achievement. This is the period for selfless constitutional activist whose political party is Ghana and the 1992 Constitution to expose the chicanery and deceptions being deployed to secure votes only to abandon the electorate to their fate once the winner assumes power.”
Ghanaians go to the polls on December 7, 2024 to vote for a new president and 276 parliamentarians.
Currently, the two major political parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have selected their parliamentary and presidential candidates. What remains to be seen is the running mates of the leading presidential contenders, former President Mahama and Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
Meanwhile, the campaign for the votes of the electorate has started in earnest. While Mr. Mahama is promising a 24-hour economy, Dr Bawumia has promised to abolish taxes that the current administration, for which he is Vice President, consider critical for the sustenance of the economy.
