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Speaker after speaker, last Saturday at the Sunyani Coronation Park in the Brong Ahafo Region, during the National Democratic Congress Manifesto launch, either attacked the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, or heaped praises on President Mahama for development they claimed had been happening in the country which the people cannot see and feel.

We cannot begrudge the appointees of President Mahama because “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” The much touted development mentioned by Fifi Kwertey and others undeniably is only felt by members of the NDC.

Many Ghanaians have been wondering about how the NDC, after worsening their socio-economic circumstances in the eight years in power, still wants another four years to unleash more hardships on them and perpetuate the looting of the state coffers.

What again can President Mahama and the NDC do with another four years after using the eight years given them by the good people of Ghana to amass wealth for themselves, kill businesses, collapse the National Health Insurance Scheme, School Feeding Programme, Capitation Grant and the other social interventions they inherited from the previous NPP government?

They keep resorting to their usual politics of lies and chicanery to create the rather false impression that something dramatic has happened in the country in the last eight years of their maladministration, and so they have an entitlement to another term.

At the height of the party’s campaign strategy this year is the usual vote buying, and many people have been wondering why a government that believes it has delivered to the admiration of the country would resort to this antediluvian method of winning the hearts and mind of the electorate.

Happily, discerning Ghanaians, who know the NDC for its Machiavellian tactics in every election year, have now indicated clearly that they will no longer allow themselves to be influenced by the party’s campaign of lies and deception.

Members of the NDC are just interested in winning elections and right after getting the mandate of the people, all that matters to them is how to ‘create, loot and share’ the taxpayer’s money.

We therefore do not find it strange that last Saturday at Sunyani, these NDC appointees tried to lie to Ghanaians that they had done so much to better their lives, and thus deserve another four years.

One wonders how the NDC wants to force it on Ghanaians that President Mahama and his government have improved their economic circumstances, while the people themselves insist their situations have grown from bad to worse since President Mahama took over from the late President Mills?

In fact, President Mahama and his government have failed woefully in the management of the affairs of the country. They have also shown that they do not have any credible programme to turn the fortunes of the nation around if they are offered another extension of mandate by the Ghanaian electorate. Ghanaians should therefore reject them at the December 7 polls because they don’t have anything good for the nation.