2020 Elections: Mahama Calls Nana Addo For A Re-Match

Former President John Dramani Mahama is calling for a rematch with President Nana AkufoAddo in the 2020 presidential election.

Speaking during a recent visit to Lancing Secondary School in the United Kingdom, President Akufo-Addo indicated that he was undecided about leading his party in the 2020 polls.

But former President Mahama, who is on a five-day campaign tour of constituencies in the Brong Ahafo Region to meet with NDC delegates ahead of the party’s flagbearership contest, is urging the to contest the next elections.

Sounding very confident of victory in the 2020 elections, Mr Mahama said a final bout is not just imperative but it is also important for the NDC to work hard to reduce the high cost of living and provide jobs.

Mahama won in 2012 as a first-timer on the ticket of then governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), securing a 5,574,761 votes that represented 50.7%. Akufo-Addo, Ghana’s main opposition leader at the time and presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), got 5,248,898, representing 47.7%.

In 2016, Mahama fell deep from the coveted seat of power with an incredible 4,713,277 votes (44.4%) to Akufo-Addo who polled a widely unanticipated 5,716,026, representing a record 53.9% since the Kufuor era.

Until NPP came, I never knew money had expiry date— Mahama

Mahama also slammed the Akufo-Addo Government, saying the NPP was loud with a lot of “sweet promises” before the 2016 general elections but had been shifty in fulfilling them after sealing power.

“We all saw in 2016 one of the major reasons we lost the election was that our opponents were reckless in terms of their promises. Anybody goes and speaks and wakes up and says we can build one factory in every district and goes and tells Nana Akufo-Addo, ‘One district; one factory’. Then, the next day he climbs the platform: ‘One district, one factory.’ Then, another person goes and tells Akufo-Addo, ‘One dam, one village.’ The next time on the platform: One village, one dam’.

“Not only that. Go and sleep again, wake up. He says you know, we can give every constituency one million dollars every year. The next day, political platform: ‘One million dollars, one constituency.’ Not only that. ‘One million dollars, one constituency, every year’. Per year o. The MTN boy— ‘Na sika no wohen?’ They say the money has expired. They called the minister to Parliament. They asked him, ‘Where is the one million dollars?’ And, then he says, ‘Oh, 2017 has passed. So, that one is expired.’ Until NPP came, I never knew that money had expiry date. 2018, too, will expire,” he said as the teeming supporters laughed derisively at the NPP and cheered him on.