The National Democratic Congress (NDC) earlier today, February 14, 2024 held a press conference to expose the poor performance of the ruling government.
The party recounted the tireless effort of former President, John Dramani Mahama in picking up Ghana’s crippled economy before the end of his tenure as President in 2016.
“Ex -President John Mahama took full responsibility for all previous decisions; John Dramani Mahama blamed nobody and went ahead to resolve Ghana’s energy crisis within one whole year before he left office.”
According to the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Fiifi Flavi Kwetey, the current government particularly the Vice President, lack the values and requisite principles to lead Ghana. He added that the NPP in question fails to take responsibility, lacks humility, and bare credibility and gratitude deficits. “Bawumia will always find a scape goat for what he cannot blame Nana Addo for when it comes to his poor performance ; it’s either COVID 19, The Russia – Ukraine war or John Dramani Mahama.”
He added that the ideology being purported by the NPP of COVID 19 being the reason behind Ghana’s recession is a fallacy, indicating that the economy began to cripple even before 2020.
The NDC delivered a list of accomplishments by the NDC and inherited at the beginning of the Akufo-Addo – Bawumia governance. Fiifi Kwetey argued that the NPP fail to acknowledge and appreciate the NDC for; a sinking fund that had $250 mil for the completion of the first Eurobond that Ghana contracted in Kuffuor’s tenure as President, Ghana Infrastructure and Investment fund of $270 million, a stabilization fund of 28 million which played a pivotal role in holding Ghana’s economy in the COVID era, an ESLA Plc fund of over GH¢3 billion per year, cocoa output of 960, 000 metric tonnes, a gross international reserve of $6.2 billion, 2 new oil fields, Buffer Stock, a secure 630 million from the initial IMF bailout deal, and a massive stock of energy, health, educational, transportation and water infrastructure.
He charged Ghanaians to be firm in choosing the next leader to pick Ghana from the present economic turmoil and believed that voting for John Dramani Mahama is Ghana’s first step in making progress . “This election on December 7, presents the people of Ghana with an opportunity to not only vote for a leader who is capable, but one who has experience and is able to take Ghana out of this economic crisis.”