Former President John Dramani Mahama should stand for the 2024 polls but he must opt for a Ga person as running mate instead of repeating Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, former Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak has said.
Mr Mubarak, on Accra-based Starr FM on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, said that: “I think Mahama should go in 2024 and I think we should have early party organisation.
“So, Mahama should go for 2024 but I think we could do with a change in running mate.” He suggested and proposed: “A Ga running mate would be great.”
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) recently predicted victory for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2024 general election.
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“The next parliamentary and presidential elections are due in 2024. Under the constitutionally mandated term limits, Mr Akufo-Addo cannot run for a third term.
“Mr Mahama is reportedly considering whether to run again but we expect the NDC to seek to revitalise its prospects with a fresh candidate.
“After two terms of New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, we expect the NDC to win the 2024 presidential election and to gain a small majority in parliament,” the EIU said.
The report noted: “In the 2020 parliamentary election, the NPP and the NDC each won 137 seats, but in January the one independent MP announced that he would co-operate with the NPP, giving it the 138 seats needed for an effective majority.
“With a razor-thin majority, the Akufo-Addo administration will require all of its MPs to vote with the party in order to push through signature policies, which is likely to necessitate deal-making to persuade MPs, which stands to obstruct immediate policy priorities, such as reducing a large fiscal overhang through expenditure cuts and tax rises.”