He said the budget, read by the Finance Minister yesterday, is empty.
As part of his campaign tour in the Ashanti Region, the former President also advised Ghanaians to brace themselves for more hardships.
“There is no hope in the budget, from what we heard yesterday, brace yourselves for more difficulties in 2019. Ghana is in a sorry state, we’re on a land full of wealth but its citizens are hungry. Today, Ghanaians are worse off than they were under the NDC government,” he stated.
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He entreated the delegates of the NDC to give him a massive endorsement in the flag bearer race to enable him to lead the party into the 2020 general elections to recapture power from the NPP.