NPP Gov’t Afraid Of My Comeback – Mahama

NDC flag bearer aspirant John Mahama says the governing NPP is troubled by his decision to once again lead the NDC, in the upcoming 2020 general election.

Speaking to some NDC party faithful in Yendi on Thursday as part of his campaign tour of the Northern Region, John Mahama expressed surprise at the behaviour of the NPP over his decision to contest.

He said very often, one always hear members of the NPP questioning why the NDC would want to bring him back as their flagbearer as they would easily defeat him. He said, if it is true that the NPP would easily defeat him in 2020 then they should be rejoicing rather than complaining.

“Two teams are playing football and the other tells the opponent that if you put in a particular goalkeeper I will score you. That means the opponent is afraid of the goalkeeper,” he said. He noted that the NPP is clearly afraid of his second coming, as they are aware that, he is the only candidate with the experience to win back power for the NDC in 2020.

Meanwhile, a member of the New Patriotic Party’s Communications Team, Eric Twum, has described former President Mahama ‘s comeback to lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as an “ego massaging exercise”.

According to him, John Mahama is trying to make Ghanaians believe that he is extremely important to the country.

John Mahama is one of 13 candidates who have expressed interest in leading the opposition National Democratic Congress into election 2020. The former President is the frontrunner in the race which some say is a make or break for the party. Former UPSA Vice Chancellor, Joshua Alabi, former Trades Minister, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, former NHIA boss, Sylvester Mensah and 2nd Deputy Speaker Alban Bagbin are some of the contenders likely to make an impression in the party’s primaries.

Background

The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana on December 9, 2016 declared the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, the winner of the 2016 elections.

The NPP Flagbearer finally secured the presidency after the third time of asking, beating the incumbent, President John Mahama.

Nana Akufo-Addo rode on the back 53.85 percent of the valid votes cast to become Ghana’s fifth president under the fourth Republic.

President Mahama, who ran on the ticket of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), secured 44.40 of valid votes cast.

President Mahama’s defeat made him the first incumbent to lose an election since Ghana returned to multi-party democracy in 1992. The NPP Flagbearer had already acknowledged the concession of five of six other contenders some 48 hours to the official declaration of results by the Electoral Commission.

The candidates of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Mahama, the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom and the independent candidate, Jacob Osei Yeboah, all called him to concede the election.

These five candidates all secured 1.76 percent of votes cast.