NPP Reacts To Mahama’s Launch Of Campaign To Become NDC’s flagbearer

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has lashed out at former President John Dramani Mahama, saying he lacks the capacity to become President of Ghana again.

The NPP accused the former President of leaving the economy in tatters during his tenure.

Mr. Mahama launching his presidential campaign on March 2, 2023, at the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ho in the Volta Region, slammed the Akufo-Addo-led government for being clueless in managing the economy.

The situation the former President said has led to the majority of Ghanaians fleeing the country in search of greener pastures.

“With the limited fiscal space, we are likely to inherit because of the mismanagement of the economy under NPP. There are many who say that my words, just before leaving office in 2016, that posterity will be my judge, have proven prophetic in the face of the disastrous performance of the NPP government and their harrowing dismantling of our country’s prospects. This government has been clueless and, in many ways, callous. We are saddled with debt, and we have been downgraded by every rating agency and inflation has gone off the roof, sending people into abject poverty,” Mr. Mahama indicated.

He added, “it should worry us deeply that the average young Ghanaian would grasp any opportunity to flee the despondent climate under which they live in favour of even the most menial jobs in other countries. We have always had our people going in search of greener pastures abroad, but the current mass exodus of active workers and professionals is profoundly worrying”.

Responding to this on Eyewitness News, the Communications Director of the NPP, Richard Ahiagbah said the former President cannot reverse the situation if given a second chance to rule the country.

He rubbished the former President’s claims saying, “people will always sojourn out of this country, when people go, they will come back. If he’s making that as a basis to show that he has the capacity to reverse it, nothing in his records shows that he can. There’s no proof to substantiate what he’s saying”.

“The statistics show that he has no capacity that he claims he has to make this economy work. He never grew the economy one inch when he had the chance to be President. He cannot talk about the economy, he cannot talk about people leaving this country. Now he wants to come again, we have to let him know that we kicked him out, and he’s no longer eligible by his performance”.

The NPP’s Communications Director said the former President has never managed an economy in a difficult time, hence his assertion.

“He [Mahama] has never managed an economy in a difficult time before, he has not managed an economy in COVID-19 before. What was the situation under his government?” he asked.

Mahama’s promises at campaign launch full of rehashed, plagiarised ideas – Richard Ahiagbah

Mr Richard Ahiagbah, described the former President John Dramani Mahama’s campaign launch as flat and lacked hope for the ordinary Ghanaian.

Mr. Ahiagbah said the former President’s campaign launch was characterised by the rehashing of old promises and ideas plagiarised from the NPP and other people.

Speaking to Umaru Sanda Amandu on Eyewitness News, Mr. Ahiagbah said, “there’s more of the old stuff that he said. The whole programme was flat, there was no enthusiasm. He didn’t say anything new, he just rehashed and put new words together, there isn’t any vision in the programme. I didn’t see any hope of information. There was a lot of misinformation, rehashing of old promises, there’s very little there to talk about”.

The former President did not credit a proposal made by the Executive Director of Eduwatch, Kofi Asare, on how government could make it easy for students to easily transition from Junior High School to Senior High School.

“We must, for instance, end the chaos that now characterises the Computerized School Selection and Placement System for BECE graduates. As a first step, we should allow students to only complete their applications for SHS after they receive their BECE results. They will be in a better position to know their actual grades and match them with the cut-off grades and raw scores of the senior high schools they wish to be admitted to,” Mr. Mahama stated.

But reacting to this, Mr. Ahiagbah said, “if anything at all, there was a lot of plagiarism in parts of his speech. Mr. Kofi Asare talked about potentially remedying the challenges we have with the school placement, to have the students make their choices after they receive their results. The former President repeated that on his campaign launch without giving credit and that is a clear plagiarism there”.

Further touching on Mr. Mahama’s campaign theme, “building the Ghana we want,” the NPP’s Communications Director accused the former President of plagiarising the African Union 2063 Agenda.

“If you go to the Africa Union’s 2063 Agenda, building the Africa we want, he just took the Africa there and put Ghana. We have a similar campaign that we are running, and he’s plagiarised all over without giving credit. But what is more injurious is the Kofi Asare bit. He just said it clearly as though it was his original idea,” he said.

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