It's a referendum on Rawlings

The MP for Abuakwa, Nana Akufo-Addo is reported by the Statesman to have described the December elections as a referendum on President Rawlings' legacy, which the NDC's Presidential candidate has promised to continue.

He said the elections would give Ghanaians the opportunity to decide whether to chart a new course by electing new leaders, or to go with the NDC policy of continuity.

Nana Akufo-Addo, who was speaking at a forum organised by students of the University of Ghana, Legon, said that the elections are crucial because they would determine the future of the country.

He noted that what the Rawlings government has achieved in the last 20 years is plunging the nation into economic mess, with the attendant untold hardships on the people.

"What Rawlings can boast of as his legacy is poverty, disease, a class society, a high level of illiteracy and high unemployment among others. And this ignominious legacy needs to be repudiated, so that the nation can be set back on the track of progress," he said.

Nana Akufo-Addo noted that the problem facing the country is not a basket case and Ghana can still come out from it, adding that having achieved independence without a gunshot, the nation's task of revival, after years of mismanagement, can also be achieved without bloodshed.