The National Democratic Congress on Friday held its final mammoth rally at Tema Community one, to climax what has been a gruelling campaign to unseat the Kufuor administration.
Thousands of fanatic supporters defied an earlier downpour and thronged to the Roman Catholic School Park, to cheer party bigwigs that converged at the venue.
Party Leader and Presidential candidate, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills and his wife Mrs Naadu Mills, ex-President Jerry John Rawlings and wife Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings and several other parliamentary candidates were present to unleash their final messages of change.
Prof. John Evan Atta Mills, assured supporters victory was already on hand, and the only option they had was to make it happen.
He said, the Central Region which has proven to be his nemesis over the previous elections has vowed to vote massively for the party come some day when Ghana elects a new president and parliamentarians.
Prof. Mills promised the enthusiastic crowd he would reduce drastically the price of petrol once elected into office.
“For how long will we pay the Tema Oil Refinery Levy,” he quizzed, adding the Kufuor administration has perpetrated a government of deceit, corruption, bad governance and mismanagement of the economy.
He asked the supporters to disregard the many opinion polls putting his rival Nana Akufo-Addo ahead, saying the silent majority will show their power on Sunday.
Ex-President Rawlings said the Kufuor administration has kept Ghanaians in captivity and there is the need for freedom and self government once again.
He accused the government of using the coercive arm of the state to instil fear in the people.
According to him, the rule by the Kufuor administration undermined discipline and called on teeming youth to vote out the NPP, for a party which believes in discipline to assume the reigns of government.
General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketiah declared the NDC government is one for teachers, and promised that under an Atta Mills led administration, teachers would be motivated and the entire educational system would be re-engineered.
He pledged the NDC would reintroduce the study leave for all teachers as well as the distance education programme which has been duplicated and wrongly implemented.
He said more schools will be built to facilitate accessibility for all.
Story by Nathan Gadugah
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