Accra — Professor John Evans Atta Mills, National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate, has said that should he become the president of Ghana, he would not "waste" his mandate on calling the predecessor government and his political opponents names.

He told Ghanaians in Atlanta, U.S. that he would spend the time in making positive changes in the lives of Ghanaians and that his foremost vision would be to build a new and united Ghana that would give equal opportunities to all and not skew opportunities in favour of only a selected few.

"The laws of the land would work and it would not take Atta Mills to decide how the laws should work so my job would be to focus on giving Ghanaians a meaningful change and restoring hope and confidence in them rather than abusing the mandate I would have been given, by chasing imaginary enemies", the presidential candidate said.

According to a statement Prof Mills brainstormed with the prestigious Morehouse School of Medicine on health delivery and the concept of leadership to students of Bauder College in Atlanta before meeting with Ghanaians and was the guest of the Carter Center.

He told the Ghanaians, "Our motherland is very much polarized as I speak to you and I am sure even from a distance, you are aware of what I am talking about An Atta Mills government would bring all shades of opinion on board and would not ask for one's ethnic origin or one's political affiliation before deciding whether to give the person a hearing or not Once you are a Ghanaian and have the ability and potential, the doors would be opened for you to put your shoulders to the wheel for us to develop our nation. Ghana's agenda would be first; and not any political or ethnic agenda."

He said he would not engage in vindictive and divisive politics that would see him asking all top civil servants who have served under the Kufuor administration to "proceed on leave and for seven years, keep them at home".

On ROPAL, Professor Mills said he had made it clear that the NDC has never, and would never, underestimate the contribution of Ghanaians in the Diaspora towards the development of the country.

He said the NDC was "not against the law in principle except that considering the way the NPP government is employing its unacceptable "let the opposition have their say but we would have our way" line of thinking to stampede the process, it portends danger for the country.

According to the NDC Presidential Candidate, even back at home, the electoral system has not been perfected and so his party's position was that, the nation must tread cautiously with ROPAL so that, "we don't wake up one morning to a non-existent country because we are killing each other over questionable election results".

GNA