Former President John Dramani Mahama has stated that the defeat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2016 general elections was good for Ghanaians to appreciate the good works of the party when it was in power.
According to the former President, it was God who made the NDC to step aside for Ghanaians to know who was being truthful and sincere to them based on the current happenings in the country.
“If the NDC had won the 2016 general elections, Ghanaians would have said if it was Akufo-Addo who had won the elections there would have been reduction in fuel prices, electricity tariffs, general improvement in the economy and jobs for the youth but now what are we seeing so it was good for the NDC to be out of power for Ghanaians to know who was truthful and sincere to them”, he stated.
Unity Walk
Former President Mahama was addressing thousands of NDC supporters from the Tamale Central, Tamale South, Tamale North and the Sagnarigu constituencies in the Northern Region who had converged on the KuliKuli school park in Tamale after a unity walk organised by the party through some principal streets in the Tamale metropolis on Saturday.
The Unity Walk was to kick start the national unity and reorganization process of the NDC to get the party in readiness for the 2020 general elections and it would take place in all the other regions in the country beginning from Tamale, the Northern Regional capital. It is being spearheaded by Mr. Kojo Bonsu the former Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) for Kumasi (KMA) and Mr. Joshua Akamba, two stalwarts of the NDC.
Reorganisation
He stated that it was time for all supporters of the NDC to bury their differences after the party’s defeat in the 2016 election and come together as one family and plan ahead for the 2020 general elections.
Former President Mahama said this was the time for all party faithful to come together to build the NDC into a formidable opposition party to put the government on its toes for the benefit of all Ghanaians.
He stated that two things that must engaged the attention of the party for now was the need for us to reorganize, re-strategies, and analysis for the 2020 general elections.
Commendation
He commended the minority group in parliament for their hard work so far, saying that even though they are few they have been able to put the government on its toes and urged them to continue for the good of all Ghanaians.
Time to unite
The General Secretary of the Party, Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia reiterated that the focus of the party now was to unite for reorganization of the party and it is not about who is going to be the Presidential candidate of the party for the 2020 elections.
He urged all party supporters to close their ranks and work together to get the party into a formidable election machine.
Mr. Nketia stated that when the NDC was criticizing the NPP government over its performance for the 110days in office, the Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia was saying that six months in office was not enough to access a government “so now was it logic for the NPP to come and tout about its achievements within the 110days” he questioned.
He therefore urged Dr. Bawumia to come to the party school establish by the NDC to learn logic.
Minority Stand on Free SHS
The Minority Leader and Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale South, Mr. Haruna Iddrisu reiterated the position of the minority on the free Senior High School (SHS) education policy by the NPP government, saying the minority would not allow the NPP to toy with the lives of Ghanaian children with its experimental policy on second cycle education in the country which was not sustainable and it was going to destroy the future of the country.
He stated that the NDC was for the progressively free SHS which was to ensure that there was infrastructure and all other logistics in place before the takeoff than the free SHS now with no infrastructure and logistics in place before the start of the progranne by the NPP
Source: Daily Graphic
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OH NO!!!!! these northners again; liars; difficult people; 'kanterkourous people'; aimless uless people and thiffs and who still follow this idiotic maggot Jon Mahama ; how can you say that 'God allowed NDC to lose so Ghanaians can taste NPP' ; the fact is that NDC as a party have never won an election in Ghana since JJ Rawlings ; they have always stolen the elections in Ghana and the same confused party want to elect this northner thiff to lead this stiller party again -BIG MISTAKE !!!!!!!
it will take u one billion years to see power again, ghana people dont want u and n,d,c again, fiafitor, gh pp
Tickle yourself and laugh JDM.We will not sit down for you and your cronies to come and loot the little cash left.
Conman
You head is raised up with your finger up as if you are looking unto the Lord.But deep down in your heart you know it's the demons,principalities, powers and spiritual wickedness up there you are looking to.Wicked, fraudster,wizard and incompetent man
Is this aloss man referring to the finding, analysis and recommendations of the Dr. Botchwey Committtee Report? Or he is relying on whiskey induced logic and native intel. You party has a comprehensive report on what went wrong and what must be done but you prefer to focus on trivialities and superstitions. To think that this is a man who controlled the fate of 28 million people is a sad commentary on our electoral processes and outcomes at the Party and National level. And some people insist he should not be described as an "INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT" but he is even proving to also be an "INCOMPETENT EX-PRESIDENT". Wow, may be challenged as a country in quality leadership but the NDC is worse off. Theirs is nothing short of a raging crisis.
See what Haruna is talking about. You enjoyed free education at the Northern region when some of you attended classes under tress. Now is bad for others to enjoy free education under canopies if there is no class rooms. Please lets be realistic small. Always we say Northers are poor but few of them are milking the nation and pretend as if they are not.
i have never seen a group of ple so devilish like this ndc. they have never supported any good thing. let us forget about the challenges of the policies the npp govt is implementing and focus on the benefits to the ple. if they will benefit the ple then it is easy to take care of the challenges. u wasted the tax payers money to build schools when parents can not afford to send their wards to school and u saw that to be a good thing. God is watching. ndc is just scared they will loose all their followers if they get the chance to be educated. even the devil can not stop the good policies Nana will be implementing. by the grace of God, the policies will survive and will benefit all Ghanaians. very soon some of u guys will cooling off in prison.
Folks I am highly disappointed in former president Mahama and can only forgive this speech of his if I am made to believe it was a political talk else I see him from today as an apology of a president. Wow š³ President Mahama this is an exhibition of the highest level of shamelessness. How do you expect tariffs to be reduced in 8 months after the kind of Ghana š¬š and economy you left behind. Please do some serious introspection and mind what you say. Hear the levels of corruption coming out. Only SSNIT'S one transaction could have about 75% of the free SHS and you have guts to say what you said. Meeeeeeen! To quote you on your abysmal campaign pronouncement "I can't think far"
Is Mahama well? I'm not so sure.