The flag bearer for the 2024 election on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has said that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has created a crisis of confidence in the population.
According to him, due to the actions and inactions of the ruling NPP, Ghanaians now think politicians are liars.
He said, “They’ll just lie for political power. If I did one-tenth of what they [NPP] have done these last eight years, I’m sure that I would have been pilloried and crucified on a cross by now.”
“They [NPP] are happy to push that mantra and make it look like, ‘Oww, you’re better off staying with us because if the NDC comes, it will be the same.’ That is the psychology of the propaganda they are doing; it’s not the same,” he added.
Mr. Mahama said the NDC “has a track record: We have given more Ghanaians electricity than any party in this country. Rawlings started the national and rural electrification programmes which have brought Ghana to above 80 percent electricity coverage, among the top 10 in Africa.”
“We’ve given more Ghanaians water than any party in the history of this country. When Prof. [John Evans Atta Mills] came into office, water coverage was 55 percent; by the time I left office, water coverage was 72 percent.”
“Seventy-two percent of Ghanaians had access to good drinking water. We have built all the public universities in this country. NPP hasn’t built one public university. They are just good at renaming them after their party figures. And, so, somebody builds a university, and you come and name it Dombo University, Tedam University, and so don’t let them come to tell us we and they are the same. We are not the same. They should just wallow in their mess and leave us alone.”
