Taking his campaign to the Western Region after a very successful tour of the Central Region, NDC Leader and Presidential Candidate, Professor John Evans Atta Mills, is asking the people of Ghana to vote for a President they can trust. According to Professor Mills, the second round is a contest between himself and Akufo-Addo and not a contest between the NDC and the NPP. “The NDC and NPP contest is over. It is now about John Evans Atta Mills and Akufo-Addo and I want the people of Ghana to judge us by what we stand for” is one of the solid threads that have been running through the message of Professor Mills. “I am the Leader of a party that has welfarism and people-centered approach to managing the affairs of state as its core values. Compare that to Akufo-Addo who is leading a party that believes in property-owning democracy and holds on to the maxim that the rich must get richer whiles the poor get poorer,” Professor Mills has been saying. “Especially for those of you in the Western Region, God has blessed you with a lot of Ghana’s natural resources and with the oil find, you need a President who will not enrich himself and his cronies with your resources whiles you the people who should benefit from the resources wallow in abject poverty”. In line with his pledge to within a 100 days, present a bill to Parliament to review downwards tariffs and taxes, Professor Mills has been stating that the NDC government will bring relief to Ghanaians. Speaking specifically to the issue of the extremely high duties that importers pay at the ports, Professor Mills has promised that his government will reduce import duties. “I am a tax expert and I know it for a fact that it is not about the quantum of revenue that is generated; it is about how efficiently the revenue is managed that is why I will not hesitate to bring relief to Ghanaians by reviewing downwards taxes and tariffs”. Professor Mills has also pledged to make sure that private lotto operators stay in business. He recalled how it was during the time of President Rawlings that private lotto operators were licensed and promised to give them back their legal freedom to operate. According to Professor Mills, the lame and desperate attempt by the NPP to create the impression that private lotto operators will be given back their license is nothing but an attempt to score cheap political points. “Is it not the NPP that has destroyed the private lotto business? So if Akufo-Addo says that he is going to move in the same direction as President Kufuor, why should anybody take the NPP serious when it is now paying lip service to private lotto operators?” “The NDC has done it before, and we will do it again by allowing private lotto operators to function within the ambit of the law” is Professor Mills pledge to private lotto operators. Professor Mills has been receiving rousing welcomes everywhere he has visited and just as happened in the Central Region, the Western Region is also pledging maximum support for Professor Mills and come December 28, there is no reason to doubt that the Western Region will double its support for the Better Ghana agenda of Professor Mills and for the CHANGE process to be completed. Professor Mills has been thanking the people of the Western Region for giving the NDC majority of parliamentary seats and asking them to turn out in their numbers on December 28 and vote massively for CHANGE. Source: Office of Prof. Mills