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General Secretary of the People's National Convention (PNC), Atik Mohammed has described President John Dramani Mahama as a 'promise-addict'.

According to him, President John Mahama's promise galore is as a result of his addiction and so believed he will never stop giving outrageous promises to the people of Ghana.

Commenting on the President's recent promise to increase the number of regions in Ghana to 15 instead of 10, Atik Mohammed was alarmed at the rate at which the President keeps promising without any commitment to fulfilling them.

He told host Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' that the President's desire to create additional 5 regions to the existing regions is ridiculous.

He wondered how the President is going to achieve it, asking "Where are they going to come from? Do you have an idea, Chairman? I don’t know. Is Northern Region going to be split into two? Western Region, Ashanti Region; how . . . You don’t just propose regions because it is politically correct to say so.”

Atik Mohammed further expressed worry over the Mahama administration, saying "I think increasingly our President is becoming a 'promise-addict' . . . Addiction is very difficult to do away with. When you’re addicted to something and you face some hardship, you’ll still find a way of doing that which you’re addicted to. So, even though the President is promise fatigued; because it’s an addiction, he cannot stop.”

He also appealed to the government to re-introduce the allowance scheme for teacher trainees in the country, explaining that the allowance will help to cushion the trainees and encourage more people to become teachers.