Mahama lacks capacity to lead Ghana again – NPP’s Ahiagbah

 

The Communications Director of the governing New Patriotic Party, Richard Ahiagbah, says former President John Dramani Mahama lacks the capacity to lead Ghana again as its president.

According to Mr. Ahiagbah, despite the economic challenges currently facing the country, the former president’s past records indicate that he can’t manage the economy any better.

“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” he stated.

Mr. Ahiagbah made these comments following an earlier statement by the former president that the Akufo-Addo-led government is clueless when it comes to managing the economy.

Mr. Mahama, at the launch of his presidential campaign on March 2, 2023, at the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ho in the Volta Region, asserted that the situation 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”.

Meanwhile, the NPP has accused the former President of leaving the economy in tatters during his tenure.

 

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