John Dramani Mahama, the NDC’s presidential candidate, has weighed in on the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) slogan of ‘Breaking the 8’.
At an Alumni Connect event, he told the Tertiary Education Institute Network attendees that ‘breaking the 8’ is possible because Ghanaians are tired of the corruption, waste, impunity, and arrogance that characterize the Akufo-Addo administration.
“Yes, we must break the eight years of corruption. Yes, we must break the eight years of impunity and waste. Yes, we must break the eight years of poor governance. Yes, we must break the eight years of arrogance.”
The former president bemoaned the fact that youth travel abroad despite the risks involved in doing so because of the current state of the economy.
“Most Ghanaian youth rightly disillusioned by the hopelessness engulfing our country are preparing now to leave the country in search of greener pastures elsewhere,” he observed.
“Not even the precarious nature of those journeys in this pursuit is enough to deter them. Many sectors especially education and health continue to lose many professionals who find the attraction of earning far more abroad than they do here too irresistible. This is a telltale sign of national failure, news to be reversed as quickly as possible,” he said.
He urged Ghanaians to cast their ballots against the incumbent party in the general election of 2024.
“The reality, however, is that no measure of confidence can be placed in this Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government to be able to do this. The sad reality is that only a change of government through the 2024 elections can result in a change in the trajectory of this country as the NPP has come to an end of the road in terms of any workable ideas.”
The NPP’s campaign slogan, ‘Breaking the 8’, aims to end Ghana’s eight-year election cycle of political party rule since the establishment of the Fourth Republic.
