Kumasi, Nov. 07, GNA-Former President Jerry John Rawlings on Wednesday ended a campaign tour of the Brong Ahafo and Ashanti regions, calling on the people to vote massively for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the December polls.

He told a teeming crowd that the vote for the NDC would bring to an end the belt tightening manner in which the New Patriotic Party had held the people. Former President Rawlings said; "No Ghanaian is born to be a slave to the other but the NPP Government is just doing that and that is why Ghanaians should bring NDC back to power to restore their dignity." A statement released in Accra signed by Mr. Kofi Adams, an aide to the former President said the tour took him to 35 constituencies from the Brong Ahafo and the Ashanti regions.

Addressing a rally at Bantama he asked the people to vote for the Presidential candidate of the NDC Prof. John Evans Attah Mills. He said before 2000 when the NPP took over from the NDC government, Ghanaians were living happily since their standard of living was better than now.

He claimed that the standard of living under NPP was now unbearable, due to "greed, corruption, bad policies and untold hardships."

Former President Rawlings who is also the Founder of the NDC noted that in 1979 when he assumed office the development level of national electricity grid covered 20 per cent of the country but improved to 90 per cent at the time he left office.

President Rawlings said the rural electrification project, which was initiated by the NDC administration with the aim of connecting rural communities to the national grid to improve lives of rural dwellers through cottage industry projects has now been abandoned as a result of high electricity tariffs imposed by the NPP Government. He said due to the high electricity tariffs, some rural communities were compelled to use lanterns.

Former President Rawlings earlier paid a courtesy call on the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.