NDC Race: Ellembelle NDC Chairman supports Mahama with GHC1,000

Mr. Alex Kwame Mahama, the constituency chairman for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Ellembelle of the Western Region has supported former President John Dramani Mahama with one thousand Ghana Cedis (GHC1,000) for his campaign.

The NDC is expected to go to the poll on Saturday, May 13, 2023 to elect its presidential and parliamentary candidates across the country.

Former President John Mahama who has filed his nomination form and vetted, is being challenged by other three party's members in the presidential race.

The Ellembelle NDC's Constituency Chairman, Alex Kwame Mahama known in a political cycle as Chairman Accounty made the kind gesture during the visit of the former president in Ellembelle on Sunday, March 26, 2023.

Mr John Mahama met the Ellembelle NDC delegates at Kanokwari cocoa farming community school park to solicit for their votes.

Making the presentation, Ellembelle NDC Constituency Chairman, Alex Mahama commended former President John Mahama for choosing a cocoa farming community like Kanokwari in Ellembelle to meet all NDC delegates to campaign before them.

He said the former President John Mahama has demonstrated that indeed he loves rural communities hence his commitment to support his campaign with such an amount.

"In fact, God has done so well for us because today the rain did not fall. God has brought former president John Mahama and his entourage safely to Kanokwari, we welcome His Excellency John Mahama to Kanokwari. We need to contribute money to support his campaign and we have seen that His Excellency John Mahama loves the rural communities and that is why he chosed Kanokwari to meet we the Ellembelle NDC delegates", he said.

The Ellembelle NDC Constituency Chairman took the opportunity to commend former president John Mahama and his government for tarring Aiyinasi to Atebabo bad road which passes through Kanokwari.

He also commended former President John Mahama-led government for constructing a six-unit ultra-modern classroom block for the good people of Kanokwari farming community.

"In fact, I'm happy His Excellency John Dramani Mahama has come to Kanokwari to witness what he did when he was the president of Ghana in this community, the beautiful road we see here was done by former president John Mahama, the beautiful school we see over there was constructed by His Excellency John Mahama through his DCE Daniel Eshun and Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah. We all can see that His Excellency John Mahama is happy to see his projects here and he is very proud", he stated.

"His Excellency John Mahama planned to construct the road to Aiyinasi North but unfortunately he couldn't complete it and he left power to NPP and since 2017 January, the NPP government led by incompetent Akufo-Addo had abandoned the project", he added.

He also commended former president John Mahama for establishing Ghana Gas Company at Atuabo in Ellembelle and ENI gas project at Sanzule in Ellembelle.

"Let us give thanks to His Excellency John Dramani Mahama for establishing Ghana Gas Company in Ellembelle, ENI gas project in Ellembelle, under his administration that commercial banks had been established in Ellembelle, under his administration that we saw oil enclave roads in Ellembelle, His Excellency John Mahama had done a lot in Ellembelle and he deserves everyday commendation", he stated.

He pledged on behalf of the entire Ellembelle NDC delegates that they would vote massively for former president John Mahama come May 13 to emerge victorious.

He also predicted that former president John Mahama would be sworn-in as the next president of Ghana on January 7th 2025.

"We want to assure His Excellency John Mahama that come May 13th we will vote massively for him to lead the party to election 2024 and on January 7th 2025 His Excellency John Mahama will be sworn-in as president of Ghana so as for me I called him the incoming president", he said.

Alex Mahama applauded former president John Mahama and the National Executives of NDC for appointing Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Ellembelle MP as the Deputy Minority Leader of Parliament.

He also assured the former president that they would forever rally behind Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah to achieve a lot his political journey.

Former President John Mahama thanked the Ellembelle NDC Constituency Chairman, Alex Mahama for supporting him with GHC1,000 to be used to run his campaign activities.

He disclosed that the NDC would select only graduates and train them to be NDC's party agents for election 2024.

He claimed that the NPP government was collapsing the oil and gas costs in the country.

He reiterated that the NDC would take the election 2024 as serious as anything and declared the upcoming general election as "Do or Die affair".

He pledged his readiness to resource the NDC to capture power from the insensitive and incompetent Akufo-Addo and Bawumia government in 2024.

Moreover, the former Ellembelle NDC Constituency Communications Officer, Comrade Alhaji Gibrilu Alhassan Laminn presented an undisclosed envelope containing money to former president John Dramani Mahama to support his campaign activities.