The Constituency Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for Ellembelle in the Western Region, Mr. Alex Kwame Mahama popularly known as Acounty has donated 1,000 Ghana Cedis to former President John Dramani Mahama to support his flagbearership campaign.

The party's Chairman made the donation during the former President visit to the constituency to canvass votes from the NDC delegates at Kamgbunli Islamic community park on Tuesday, January 8, 2019.

Mr. Mahama is among other high profile aspirants within the NDC who have submitted nomination forms to contest including the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Sylvester Mensah, and Nadowli Kaleo MP, Alban Bagbin.

Other aspirants are Dr. Ekwow Spio Garbrah; a former Trade and Industry Minister; Former Vice Chancellor of the University for Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Prof. Joshua Alabi, Goosie Tanoh and Nurudeen Iddrisu
Some many members within the party have donated cash to support the candidature of Mr John Mahama to lead the party into the 2020 general elections.

The party's presidential primaries has been slated for January 26, 2019 across the 275 Constituencies in the country.

During the presentation, the Constituency Chairman said former President John Mahama laid inedible marks in the area hence encouraged him to make the donation.

He revealed that the grassroots are solidly behind him and assured the former President that he will make sure that he gets a 100 percent votes from the delegates in the constituency so he should be rest assured.

Mr. Alex Mahama highlighted some of the achievements the former president chalked in the Constituency.

He mentioned the construction of Atuabo Gas Processing Plant, ENI Gas, the construction of Agona Nkwanta to Elubo highway, Esiama Water Treatment Plant, construction of major township roads in the area among others.

He revealed that the former president started the process of constructing a Free Port at Atuabo but expressed disappointment in the NPP government for abandoning the project.

He, therefore used the opportunity to appeal to the party members to work hard to bring the NDC party into power to continue the projects started by former President John Mahama in the Constituency.

He was optimistic that the hardship they are witnessing under the NPP government now is an indication that Ghanaians really want Mr John Mahama and NDC back.
"In fact Ghanaians are crying for John Mahama to come and remove them from the economic hardship the Akufo-Addo government has brought, today Ghanaians are suffering and we are in Satan's fire. We can't buy food stuff and we cannot also buy fuel", he lamented.

Addressing the delegates and party members, former President John Mahama thanked the Constituency Chairman for the kind gesture and asked God to bless him abundantly.


Mr. Mahama urged NDC party to remain united in order to retain power come 2020.

He advised party folks to remain focus and put the party at heart and vote for him to save mother Ghana from economic hardships under the Akufo-Addo’s government.

He said the NPP created a false sense that it could out-perform the NDC in government but after winning the last elections, the policies of the government have resulted in untold hardship, with every sector of the economy taking a hit.

He said the President should desist from saying that he would not be responding to presidential aspirants, adding that the aspirants are just carriers of messages of suffering Ghanaians.

"So he should listen before it is too late because Ghanaians are really suffering", he said.

According to the former president, the Akufo-Addo's led administration has failed the good people of Ghana in discharging its 2016 campaign promises made such as one constituency, one million dollars, one district one factory, one village, one dam policies.

He accused the NPP government of collapsing the agricultural sector by non-increment of cocoa prices for the past two years, selling subsidized cocoa fertilizers meant for free to farmers to boost cocoa production in the country.