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National Youth Coordinator of the Progressive People�s Party ( PPP,) Divine Nkrumah, has called on Ghanaian electorate to emulate the example of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) at their respective National Delegates� Congresses by voting out the current administration. While congratulating the delegates of the two parties for voting out their incompetent national executives, especially the NDC, whose national delegates� congress was held last Saturday in Kumasi in the Ashanti region, the PPP�s national youth coordinator asserted that such a decision should be replicated in 2016 by Ghanaians. In a statement issued and copied to Today on Monday, December 20, 2014, Mr. Nkrumah was full praise for the delegates who voted in the just-ended NDC congress. According to him, the NDC delegates had shown that they are �truly democrats� by voting against their inefficient leaders. �Indeed the NDC delegates have shown that they are democrats and we must all learn from their example in moving forward as a nation,� the PPP�s youth coordinator intimated. �Ghanaians ought to take a cue from the NDC delegates who have set the model to follow at their National Delegates Congress by replacing the old executives with new persons they believe can move the party forward by producing results,� he added. He noted that the delegates and members of the NDC were not in the least pleased with the old crop of unproductive leaders �who had no vision in terms of advancement of the party.� And for that reason he said the delegates of the NDC must be applauded for setting the example that Ghanaians ought to follow in 2016 � that is, getting rid of the current non-performing NDC government. �This is the kind of lesson that we must all learn from,� Divine Nkrumah noted in the statement. The Mahama-led administration, according to him, has so far proven to be helpless and clueless in the face of the economic and power challenges that the nation has been plunged into. He argued that while crude oil prices had gone down to a record level of under $60 per barrel, the ruling NDC government was still selling a gallon of petrol for more than GHC15.00. He continued in the statement that the Mahama-led government has seen corruption at unprecedented heights and thus prompting international bodies to grade Ghana as a country high in corruption. �Under his [President Mahama�s] watch, the �inviolable presidential lounge at Kotoka International Airport has become a conduit for export of cocaine in volumes that even Colombia will tremble at,� he noted. It would be recalled that in April this year, the NPP also in a similar fashion at its National Delegates Congress held in Tamale in the Northern region saw all the old national executives except the party�s National Women�s Organiser, Atiko Djaba voted out.