Govt's economic policies brought hardships to the people

Nkawkaw (E/R), Sept. 16, GNA - The former Vice-President and National Democratic Congress (NDC) Presidential candidate for 2000 and 2004 General Elections, Professor J.E.A. Mills, has attributed the economic hardships facing the people to the government's economic policies.

He urged Ghanaians to vote against the NPP government in the 2008 general elections.

Prof. Mills said Ghanaians would not see any positive change in their living standards, if the NPP government remained in power. Prof. Mills was speaking to the press after interacting with NDC constituency delegates drawn from the Atiwa, Abirem, Nkawkaw, Mpraeso and Abetifi at Nkawkaw on Thursday to formally announce his intention to contest the primaries to elect a candidate for the party to contest the 2008 presidential elections.

He said though inflation and interest rates had gone down, majority of Ghanaians could not make ends meet.

Prof. Mills urged the delegates to inform other delegates in the constituencies to vote for him in the forth-coming primaries to lead the party in the 2008 presidential elections, since according to him, he had got the experience as a former Vice-President of the country. He advised them to avoid provocative language but conduct their campaign in a peaceful atmosphere for the party to elect a credible candidate to contest the forth coming presidential elections. The former Vice-President said there was cordial relationship between himself and former President, Flt-Lt. Jerry John Rawlings and the other contestants and would support any candidate, who would emerge at the primaries to lead the party.