Former President John Dramani Mahama has challenged his successor, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to move beyond propaganda and work to assuage the plight of the suffering masses who voted for change at the last elections.
According to him, Akufo-Addo has no excuse than to implement the juicy campaign promises that won him power at the last elections. Buttressing his standpoint, he cited the then New Patriotic Party in opposition promise to drastically reduce fuel prices and electricity tariffs as some of the juicy promises.
Former President John Dramani Mahama was addressing a teeming crowd at the Kulikuli School Park to climax the party’s maiden unity health walk held in Tamale. “No amount of propaganda can make the people oblivious of their own responsibilities because they are living with the prevailing circumstances.”
He called for a formidable opposition to represent the voiceless by constructively criticizing government to keep it on track. He said the NDC cannot win the next general elections with a divided front for which reason party loyalists and leadership should bury their differences and unite for a common good.
He recalled the party’s humiliating defeat at the last elections saying, “It was good we lost the 2016 elections for Ghanaians to feel the deceptive nature of the governing NPP then in opposition. Former President Mahama commended the NDC’s minority caucus in Parliament for keeping the Nana Addo administration on its toes. He also thanked the event organizers for their forethought and promised to unveil himself for similar events if replicated nationwide.
Minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu mocked at the governing NPP’s much touted “Free SHS” policy and described it as political gimmick.According to him, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s administration is in a haste to implement the policy without proper financing.
He served notice that the NDC minority caucus in Parliament will fiercely resist any attempts to implement the policy at all cost for political expediency. He explained that the NDC as a social democratic party was not against the implementation of the Free SHS policy but insisted that the right structures must be put in place to ensure its sustainability.
Haruna Iddrisu thereby admonished President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to rethink about the Free SHS policy and promote national dialogue on the policy.
Asiedu Nketiah cautions NDC communicators
The NDC General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah cautioned the party’s communicators against politicizing his reported attack at gun point on the Kumasi-Accra highway.
He trusted that state institutions handling the case are capable of apprehending the culprits and called for maximum restraint commenting on the issue.
He nonetheless stated that the party will draw its conclusion on the issue should the state institutions fail in their investigations.
The Member of Parliament for Sagnarigu constituency and also the NDC minority caucus communications Director appealed told all party loyalists to genuinely forgive each other.
He said the NDC cannot afford to be in opposition beyond 2020 and that success of the unity health walk should nor be jeopardized.The event which lasted for several hours caused heavy vehicular and human traffic on the streets of Tamale but nothing untoward happened and there were no casualties.
Source: citifmonline.com
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i pray that mahama wld win the ndc primaries so that we can disgrace him again. amen
Big No! Yu lost the elections because you were ***barred word*** president, full of greed, ***barred word***, stealing, corruption, tribal bigotry, discrimination etc. You turned Ghana into your family and friends company by stealing everything you came across! You could not steal the elections in collusion with the EC because of the vigilance of the NPP and most Ghanaians! Stop deluding yourself!
No more ndc in Ghana politic so don't dream of coming to power anywhere soon. NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU
Democracy is indeed beautiful. Mahama and his likes asking Akuffo to work and stop the propaganda? wonders shall never end indeed. In one breath you will resits Akuffo from implementing the free SHS that he started, then in another he should fulfil his juicy promises. Do the NDC and its apparatchiks listen to themselves when they talk. Thank God Ghanaians have become much much wiser. We know who works for our interest and those who come into government to steal as if there will be no tomorrow.
@Ama Texas why won't we insult. You know the Ghana this Con man left us.NDC is never a serious party.Just restraining myself hmmm
Thank you for getting up to walk. By token of the walk, Healing has manifested. Time is flying. September is almost gone. We have no time to waste. The 48 months given to the winners of the last election are now 39 months. The next election is not far at all. We have learned from our mistakes. Let us Focus. No distractions. Educate the electorate. Register eligible voters. Intensify the "constructive criticism" to keep the government on its toes. That is the name of the "political game" called DemonCracy. You have the "come back ability". Indeed, God moves in misterious ways to perform His wonders. Now we have the opportunity to "compare" the recent past with the current present. We are making up our minds based on facts on the ground. We have tasted the promised "juicy fruit". We know for ourselves now that the fruit is not as sweet as promised. We are already licking our thumbs. We are getting ready to bring about real "change". We are a Socio-Economic DivineCratic Party. Coming soon to a District Near You.
Dear Mr.ex-president Nana Addo is seriously working we the parents are happy to have our children going to secondary school free, instead of giving our children free education in which you benefited from you decided to buy house for Afis Schwarzenegger, Akua Donkoh and many others who were insulting Akufo Addo everybody is seeing what nana Addo is doing and we appreciate. because you a ***barred word*** every body who served under you became a ***barred word***.
YOU SAY ? LORD HAVE MERCY.
Mahama,siaaaaaaa !!!!!
Is mahama and his corrupt, wicked, cursed and doomed NDC still in shock after their humiliating defeat? Do they think Ghanaians are fo-o-ls and stu--pid as they are? With all the corruption uncovered under their rule, he still has the guts and moral courage to say what he is saying? God punish them forever, Amen!