2024 Elections : Mahama will win and you’ll hand over to him – Haruna tells Akufo-Addo

The Member of Parliament for Tamale South Haruna Iddrisu has told President Akufo-Addo that the 2024 general elections will not be a coronation.

He says the elections will be won by the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama

President Akufo-Addo will have no option but to hand over to Mr Mahama, he said.

The former Minority Leader while speaking during the launch of the NDC campaign in Tamale on Saturday, July 27, said “The 2024 election is not a coronation, it is an election that Mahama will win, you will have no option than to hand power to him”

He further stated that Mr Mahama is coming to the presidency “with unparallel rich experience and not experiment and save the country.”

For his part, the National Chairman of the NDC Johnson Asiedu Nketia told President Akufo-Addo to ensure peaceful elections.

He says that the president should not hide behind the security to intimidate opponents of his party in the elections.

“Mr President you the commander in chief of the Armed Forces,  your word to the security sector that you are interested in a peaceful election will be obeyed, ensure peaceful elections,” he said during the launch of the NDC’s campaign in Tamale on Saturday, July 27.

For his part, the chairman of the NDC campaign team Professor Joshua Alabi has said that the governing New Patritoc Party (NPP) will lose the upcoming elections on December 7 and hand over power to the NDC.

He says it is up to the NDC to protect the ballot during the poll, an action he promised party supporters that the leadership would undertake.

Prof Alabi stated that Ghana is currently headed in the wrong direction under the Akufo-Addo administration.

To that end, he has asked Ghanaians to go out into their numbers for the NDC during the elections on December 7.

“Ghana is moving in the wrong direction, [The NPP] will lose and hand over and run away and we are assuring everybody that we will protect your votes so go and vote,” he said during the launch of the NDC 2024 campaign in Tamale on Saturday, July 27.

For her part, the Member of Parliament for Korle Klottey, Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, cautioned all agents of the NDC not to accept money that will come their way to stop monitoring the elections to allow for some underhand dealings to take place.

She said the NDC needs to win the election to protect the democracy of Ghana hence the need to protect the ballot.

She noted that the Akufo-Addo administration has been a failure and further accused the government of ‘blatant corruption”

Corruption has been presided over by this government,” she said during the 2024 campaign launch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Tamale on Saturday, July 27.

“Today we promise John Mahama that we will set the bar high with zero tolerance with respect to corruption. The people of Ghana hold NDC to the highest standards

“We must hold onto principles that can’t be bought with money, we must make sure none of our agents is be bought,” she said.

“Let’s protect the ballot boxes., do not allow yourself to be misled by the money people will bring your way,” she said.

The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi for his part, said that the 2024 general election will experience a change of government.

To him, Ghanaians will vote against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) because of the “incompetent Akufo-Addo government.

“Change is coming, are you ready for change,” he said during the campaign launch of the NDC in Tamale on Saturday, July 27.

“The victory of the NDC is coming again,” he stressed.

 

 

 

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