Mahama debunks fueling Ghana’s hardship perception

Former President John Dramani Mahama has denied feeding the minds of Ghanaians with the perception that, President Akufo-Addo has created high amount of hardship in the country.

This comes after the governing party’s Director of Communication, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, accused Mahama of fueling a perception of hardship in the country.

Speaking at a press conference at the party’s headquarters on Friday, August 20, he said, “We are not frightened of John Mahama, we know he cannot manage the economy, so we can’t let him poison your minds because if you’re sitting your somewhere and they keep telling you ‘oh it is bad, Ghana is hard, there is corruption, Ghana is hard’. Then sometimes, you think it’s true. So we have to speak back.”

He added, “We’re not frightened by John Mahama. We know he cannot give you a good education, we know he cannot give you good health, he will collapse NHIA. We know he cannot manage the economy. Interest rates, inflation will go up, growth will drop and we’ll go back to the IMF”.

But speaking at a meeting with heads of local churches in Wa as part of his ‘Thank You Tour’ of the Upper West Region, on Monday, August 23, 2021, Mr. Mahama questioned the “logic” of the governing party.

To him, Ghanaians are going through unprecedented levels of hardship under the Akufo-Addo led government and no amount of propaganda would clean out the mess.

“Times are hard even though the New Patriotic Party, NP, says that times are not hard but it is me who is giving Ghanaians the impression that times are hard. It makes me wonder what kind of logic they have that Ghanaians cannot feel hardship unless John Mahama comes and tell them.”