Former President John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has stated that Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang is the Vice President that Ghanaians require if they are to establish the Ghana that everyone deserves.

He believes Prof Opoku-Agyemang will be an excellent complement if the NDC wins this year’s election and forms the next administration.

In a Facebook post announcing the former Minister of Education as his running partner, Mr Mahama said, “If we are to build the Ghana we want together, Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang is truly the Vice President we need.” She will be an ideal match in many ways, serving with dignity, boldness, honesty, and grace.”

Prof Opku Agyemang stated during her investiture at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) on Wednesday, April 24, that corrupt people in the Akufo-Addo administration will be held responsible if the NDC wins this year’s elections.

She stated, “The condescending views this as a lack of fresh thoughts. The unpretentious consider it as a sign of comprehending democracy’s roots, namely consensus building, which is the clearest indicator of long-term peace. I view it as a sign of strength, and I consider myself fortunate to work with him.

She also remarked that consensus-building should be the focal point of any progressive, constructive initiative.

“We have already seen how, without such a base, Ghana Without Aid has become Ghana Without Compass.

“The decision is easy; let us make it on December 7 this year. Corruption is endemic in far too many government and non-governmental entities; unfortunately, the institutions designed to combat corruption have been severely undermined. We must enhance the institutions, and we will do so when the NDC takes office in January 2025, God willing.

“It is our duty to ensure that our sources of wealth are not given away to obscure entities shrouded in opaque deals. We must not arrive at a destination where our national assets and natural resources are treated by some as if they were assets of their own creation, to be willed forever to relatives and friends.

“We must be passionate about justice, about the protection of our environment, about protecting our differently-abled citizens. We must be passionate about institutions that are responsive to our collective needs. We must be passionate about stamping out corruption.

“Let no one tell us otherwise, not even those who have so alienated themselves from reality as to be impervious to the truth—the truth of women delivering on the floor, of children waiting for a benevolent person to advance much-needed vaccines, of young children learning in dangerous circumstances; of teachers threatened and parents intimidated from their core functions of caring for their own children; of those who can no longer afford healthily and once generally affordable meals euphemistically called  “face the wall” and ‘kofi broke man’, or of elderly citizens who must picket for their own money. What is that?” She said.

She added “Let no one tell us that the culture of silence has become the norm, let no one tell us that eight persons were shot in cold blood because they had gone to exercise their civic responsibility of voting, and that it was all right for a member of parliament to call them criminals; or that it is okay for SALL to have no representative in parliament for four years under a democracy because someone whimsically decided hours to the elections that they could not vote for a parliamentary candidate. And please don’t tell us that the Bank of Ghana, rather than defending itself from accusations of breach of procedure, can choose to label those who raised the matter publicly as hooligans who should have followed procedure.

“And at the time of accounting to the people, let no one pretend that they have more human rights than those they have consciously disenfranchised and those to whom justice has been shamefully denied.

“When those otherwise loud voices we assumed spoke for the voiceless have gone into self-imposed silence, and deafness and blindness, should we honestly be surprised at the high levels of cynicism if not downright mistrust of leaders? Of our youth in despair?”