Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama says Ghanaians will score the ruling party an ‘F’ grade on the management of the economy over the present challenges the country was enduring.
The former president who is on a campaign tour of Greater Accra Region told rally attendees the failure of the government was so clear to the point that government officials could not absolve themselves of any blame.
“The mark that the people of Ghana will give them for the management of the economy is F because when it comes to the economy they’ve failed completely, absolutely,” he said at the campaign stop. “And they cannot escape blame for where they have landed us.”
Mr. Mahama hit out at the NPP government for piling a “huge debt on the people of Ghana” even though they consistently claimed they were the “best” since independence.
Mr. Mahama explained the reason for the stability in the currency was that the country’s debt repayment had been frozen and the story could be difficult when repayment resumes in 2025.
The former president dismissed comparisons between the ruling NPP government and the Nkrumah administration, noting that such claims indicate that the current managers of the economy do not appreciate the hardships citizens were going through.
“I always say, when you’re ill, the first thing step towards a cure is to accept you’re I’ll and know what is wrong with you. But these people, they don’t even understand that the country is in crisis. They say ‘We are the best government since Kwame Nkrumah’ and that Akufo-Addo is better than ‘your Kwame Nkrumah’, he said in reference to the ruling party’s Vice-Presidential Nominee, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh’s controversial statements about the country’s first president.
The NDC leader observed that the utterances of the governing party was a testament to the fact that they “don’t understand the harm they have done to Ghana”.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM/Mitchell Asare Amoamah
