President John Dramani Mahama has said it is easier making promises while in opposition than executing them when in government.
Addressing business leaders in Accra on Monday, November 14, Mr Mahama pointed out that individuals seeking to be voted as president tend to make huge promises only to be hit with reality when they gain the mandate to govern.
Ghana is heading for the polls on December 7 to elect a president for the next four-year term and the main opposition leader, Nana Akufo-Addo, has promised to build a factory in each of the 216 districts in the country if elected into office.
Relating it to the recent presidential election victory of Republican businessman Donald Trump in the US, Mr Mahama stated: “We need to watch world affairs and the way things are playing out with Brexit, with the US elections —Trump’s surprise win against all the polls and all that, and to see how his world view will affect America’s relations with the rest of the world. I believe that things will settle. Often when you are outside government, you have a very simplistic view of things and so you can just say: ‘when I come I’ll do this and I’ll do that, and when you get into office, you find out that the realities are not as easy as you thought it was.”
He continued: “I’ll build a wall here, I’ll do this here, and I’ll put a factory in every district. I’ll build this everywhere. It’s easy for you to say all these things when you are outside government but when you come in and the reality catches up with you, then you realise that things are not as easy.”
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