The John Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) has not lived up to expectation with the mandate given to them to lead this country, therefore the Ghanaian electorate must change the government in this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections, Mustapha Hamid , spokesperson of the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said.

According to him, the verdict on the NDC government going into the elections was negative given that untold economic hardships had been visited on Ghanaians under the leadership of Mr. Mahama.

Mr. Hamid told Accra-based Citi FM: “The elections that we are going into in 2016, it is a referendum on the NDC; it has nothing to do with the NPP.

In politics, you are given a mandate to rule over a certain period and when that period comes people are given the opportunity to come and say whether you have fulfilled that mandate or not. …If they think you haven’t fulfilled the mandate, they will kick you out, and so as to who is desperate and who is not desperate [for power] is neither here nor there.

“The question that we will not allow the NDC to get away with is: ‘Have they lived up to the expectation of Ghanaians?’ Our answer is no. The answer from the Ghanaian people is no. They have visited untold hardship on the Ghanaian people.

They have corrupted our society…they have impoverished this nation and taken us back to IMF control and as far as we are concerned, the verdict on them is negative and therefore we are urging the Ghanaian people to get them out.”