Former Chairman of the Confiscated Vehicles Committee in the Mills administration, Carl Wilson stated that the December 7 general elections will be difficult for the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) because “President John Mahama doesn’t have the youth behind himâ€.
According to him, “The youth that drove him [Mahama] into power in 2012, I don’t believe President Mahama has the youth behind him, he doesn’t, and the youth form a 70% presence in the voters’ register. People are crying for jobs, people are crying for ways to liveâ€.
Speaking on Accra FM’s breakfast show, Ghana Yensom Friday, 12 August that, about the chances of the NDC in the elections, he said,  “… I know Ghanaians are not satisfied with the governance they are being [served] today, especially the unemployed youth ... You see, the propaganda is too much and so it has clouded the indicators by which we can properly gauge the mood and judge how the polls will go. If you take away the propaganda and you face the real issues, they themselves (the NDC) know that it will be difficult for them.â€
Considering these factors, the 2016 elections, he added, would only be decided after a second round of voting.
“I can confirm and I can say here that I’m very sure that the 2016 elections will go into a second round. Nobody is going to win in the first round because the dynamics are there indicating so,†Mr Wilson, who is now the founder of advocacy group Move Ghana, said.
He wondered why the NDC, after winning the 2012 polls the slogan, ‘A Better Ghana Agenda’, would abandon it for a new slogan, ‘Transforming Ghana, Changing Lives’.
“You don’t change a winning formula and then base your whole campaign on infrastructural development, which a president in this country some time ago said was an ‘exercise in mediocrity’,†he told show host, Chief Forson.