The National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer candidate John Dramani Mahama has emphasized the significance of the Ashanti Region to the success of the opposition group.
He claimed that if the NDC receives a sizable number of votes in the Ashanti Region, they will have a strong chance of winning the upcoming general elections.
On the first day of his regional campaign tour, the former president and potential NDC 2024 flagbearer told supporters in Nhyiaeso that the NDC’s support in the area was crucial to the party’s chances of winning any election.
“I have always said that victory in Ghana elections, if we are to win, Ashanti Region is very important for NDC’s victory.
“More often than not, we take it that Ashanti is not our stronghold so we relax, but the numbers we get in Ashanti is sometimes bigger than two or three regions.”
“So, we are going to do hard work in Ashanti, the boot to boot I have talked about is here. The do-or-die is here. We don’t want anyone to be cheated and we won’t allow anyone to cheat us,” he added.
Boot to boot means, we won’t allow you to cheat. It is like a football match in which you are using your feet with boots on but don’t want me to compete same. Let’s bring our boots together and see who gets the ball,” he explained.
During his campaign tour last week, Mahama reaffirmed the slogans “boot to boot” and “do or die” to party supporters in the Bono East Region’s Tain and Banda constituencies.
”I have no doubt that NDC will win the 2024 elections. So, the vote will be a do-or-die affair and we will be matching them boot to boot at the polling station.”
In addition to saying that the NDC wants transparency so that the will of the people will be carried out after the polls, he added that the party will be extremely watchful at the polling places during the general elections in 2024.
