Former President John Dramani Mahama was too upfront with Ghanaians regarding the state of the country’s economy during the 2016 election campaign, hence his defeat, NDC Member of Parliament for Banda, Ahmed Ibrahim, has said.
According to him, telling the truth to the electorate rather made Mr Mahama unpopular to most voters while the then opposition leader Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the NPP peddled falsehood to hoodwink the electorate into voting for them, culminating in the NPP’s electoral victory in 2016.
He said that many Ghanaians were already regretting their decision to vote against the NDC upon the realisation that the NPP and Mr Akufo-Addo lied to them.
Speaking on Ghana Yensom on Accra FM on Thursday May 25, Mr Ibrahim said: “The NPP and Nana Addo are really subjecting Ghanaians to severe hardship. Today, taxi drivers are crying, other workers are also crying in all parts of the country.”
“But I am not surprised at the government’s actions to bestow hardship on Ghanaians because they know they won by over 1.5 million votes, and, so, even if anything at all should happen to them in the next election, that figure will only reduce and that will be immaterial to their victory.
“This is the reason why the president is not working. So far, we are in the sixth month of his administration and not even one of the promises he gave has been fulfilled. Not a single one of them! What are we doing to ourselves in Ghana? The NHIS is not working and [there are] several other issues.”
He added: “I strongly believe that former President Mahama was too sincere with Ghanaians but Ghanaians didn’t like that; instead they opted for deception.”
Source: Classfmonline
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NDC members don't get it; do Ghanaians need to be told the economy was bad by Mahamah? Please, stop insulting our intelligence and the sycophancy. Give Ghanaian voter a bit credit. Come again please. The effect of Mahamah's BORROW, INFLATE, CREATE, LOOT, SHARE and COVER-UP policy was evident for any Ghanaian with a sound mind to see. Shame on you. Please save us the agony of your lies and sycophancy. Don't lie to yourself and throw dust in our eyes because we're alert and wide awake. The looters are being exposed one by one. It will get to the turn of Mahamah and his family sooner than you think.
Since when did you realised that the NHIS is not working?
Which planet are Mahama and his men living. They still do not get it. They still do not see anything wrong about their incompetence that caused them to lose the election
Oh, I see. So since when has the NHIS not been working?
What at all do these NDC people want? You have lost an election, and everyday you are ranting over and over, and end up insulting the voters. So you are trying to tell us that 5 million Ghanaians do not have their own minds, but can be deceived by one person into voting for that person? Besides, who lied more than Mahama?
Yeah, he told the truth but the was that he had an incompetent tenure. The people did the right thing to kick him out.