The Chairman of the Employment and Job Creation Committee of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) 2024 manifesto team, Goosie Tanoh, says the flagbearer of the party, John Dramani Mahama, is determined to rebuild the country following what he described as the failure of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to do so.

He said, “John is determined to rebuild this country with your help, with your support, with your energy, as he has announced the 24-hour economy plan to reconstruct our country.”

In his final campaign message, issued just 24 hours before Saturday's polls, Mr Tanoh claimed that the Nana Addo-led government had denied the masses the opportunity for employment, making life difficult for many ordinary Ghanaians, who form the majority of the nation’s population.

He claimed that the eight years of the NPP government had resulted in an “insensitive government, one that has made corruption the order of the day, and a government that has put most Ghanaians into poverty.”

Supporting his claims with statistics, he said, “In 2022 alone, 825,000 Ghanaians fell into poverty. As I speak to you now, 41% of Ghanaians are described as multidimensionally poor.”

He added, “The unemployment rate is 14.7%, double what the current NPP administration inherited. There are 2.1 million unemployed people, most of whom are women and young people in the prime of their lives, who should be working, taking care of themselves, and building families. Instead, they are at home, with nothing to do.”

The NDC founding member went on to say that deprived Ghanaians want a change, and that change is the NDC and John Mahama. He also stated that John Mahama represents “empathy and sensitivity, in contrast to the arrogance we have seen over the last eight years.”

He emphasised that Mr Mahama is the only one who can make Ghana “what it should be, able to feed all its people, house all its people, educate all its people, and ensure that all its people are healthy.”

The NDC on Thursday, December 5, concluded its 2024 campaign activities in Madina, Accra, where the party and Mr Mahama made their final appeal to Ghanaians to vote for the NDC in Saturday’s polls to bring them back to power.