According to the Ex-president, the country is at its most dire level and for that matter, the NDC cannot risk presenting a candidate without the experience to confront the challenges head-on.

“Ghana at this time does not need a ‘try-me-too-leader,” he said on Thursday, March 2 as he officially declared his candidature to lead the NDC into Election 2024.

“Ghana needs a leader who accepts responsibility and works to fix the problem and not one who shifts blame to others.”

He made these statements during the launch of his flagbearership campaign themed ‘Building The Ghana We Want Together’.

Addressing party faithful in Ho, John Mahama mentioned that trust in the Akufo-Addo-led government has been eroded due to the economic mismanagement resulting from incompetent, inefficient leadership and general non performance he described as abysmal.

“Our present state and its effect on our people trouble me a lot,” he said.

JM said he has monitored the country’s problems for some time now and that he's in the best position to deliver that badly needed change.

The flagbearer-aspirant insisted that “We will not run a government of slogans, instead we will run a government of action.”

Mr. Mahama is one of the four aspirants who are in the running to be elected as NDC’s flagbearer into the 2024 election.