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Ghana�s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings says President Mahama�s government will succeed only if members of the public help to expose the weaknesses in his government and offer concrete suggestions in fighting corruption. President Rawlings said he was aware of the fact that the government is confronted with a number of challenges including corruption and stated that the President concedes that all Ghanaians need to join hands in combating the problem. The former President also called for a review of the electoral college of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to make it more representative of the will of the people. President Rawlings who delivered the keynote address at the annual Deza Festival of the people of Dzodze in the Volta Region on Saturday, said: �There is no point in voting for the President and government and sitting down waiting for Accra. You have an equal responsibility to help develop your country by refusing to sit on the fence doing nothing.� Touching on the NDC the former President, who is also the Founder of the party said: �The time has come to enlarge the electoral college of the NDC so a larger group of people which is better representative of various local communities, elect officers of the party including the flag bearer. Others may have initiated that method but we can do better and come up with a larger and more representative electoral college. We should have done that a long time ago. �Those of our officers and executives with integrity must support reform and should have nothing to fear. Let us not do anything to undermine the attempt to hand the party back to the people. To do so will be risking the life of the NDC.�