December 7th Election: Don’t vote like someone without a future

The December 7th Election in 2024 for Ghana is about making a decision that will affect us all for the next four years. I know you are suffering and going through a lot. That should influence the choice you make as a voter on December 7th. 

Don’t vote like someone without a future on December 7th, 2024, unless you are ready to face the negative impacts of your unacceptable actions, violence, and choices. We are for peace; what about you? 

Ghanaians will exercise their voting rights on December 7th to elect a President and Members of Parliament for the next four years. The question you should ask yourself is: has life been better for you and those around you from 2016 to 2024? Have your life improved for the better without you getting tips, bribes, and favours ordinary Ghanaians get from politicians? Your vote is your right but do not follow selfish dreams and aspirations and use your vote to cancel the vote by others who want Ghana to truly progress.

Don’t vote like someone without a future. As a voter, this right to be part of national decision-making must be exercised with the future in mind.

This requires that you vote on the issues tabled and not the ethnic affiliations, gimmick political issues, and baseless arguments.

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On December 7th, our votes will determine the direction in which this beautiful nation called Ghana will head.

Voting on the wrong basis, giving the authority to rule to the wrong person would mean choosing to stagnate, derail progress, and frustrate the future of the citizenry.

Democracy is beautiful; the majority may not always be right, but it is better than war, conflict, and military takeovers. Democracy is not always right unless the collective decision by the majority provides a far better alternative based on the objective judgment of the right-thinking members of society and the successes achieved.

Ghana needs peace, in one piece and not in pieces if any of our aspirations are realised.

Don’t vote like someone without a future. Electoral violence has the tendency to unmake our progress and stagnate development, frustrate opportunities, and shut down the dreams of our youth, women, and children.

Ghanaians have a role to play to ensure Ghana comes out of the December elections the winner, and not the parochial interest and wishes of persons who think about themselves and not the total good of the nation and its people.

Do not be deceived; each presidential and parliamentary candidate has what it takes to lead this nation in their various capacities if voted for. But Ghanaians must choose who can help the nation realize its competitive advantage for each constituency and the country at large.

Equally factual is the fact that none of them is a saint; they are all fallible beings yet want to help us as a people to realize our national goals. In their fallible states, putting politics aside, you know who has what it takes to improve our lives. If you let politics cloud your judgment and you vote for the wrong person, you will be contributing to more suffering in the country.

As we go into the elections, your interest and decision to vote for one candidate or the other should hinge on what the people can do and have done, their manifestos and programs, and not their personalities and human inefficiencies.

Do not let their political affiliations compromise your choices. Don’t let GHS50, GHS100, or GHS200 stolen money given to you as political gifts influence you. Do not allow the vote-buying tricks of politicians to prevent you from making a well-thought-out decision for Mother Ghana.

If we vote and elect those who destroy this nation, we will affect our lives and others, and the entire country may continue to go the wrong way as it has been in many instances to date.

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Let us make objective comparisons between candidates and make a good choice, not based on the tips we are getting in the election season. Remember, such gifts are for the moment.

Don’t vote like someone without a future; don’t act like someone without a future; and don’t engage in any form of electoral violence like someone without a future.

Ghana is where she is today because of the choices of the past.

Vote wisely, vote objectively, vote truth to power, make the right choice, and let Ghana remain one piece, in peace and not in pieces. Make a good choice your inner self will be proud of during the December 7th Election in 2024 for Ghana.

Source: GhanaEducation.Org