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General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu has slammed former President John Dramani Mahama for attacking President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for commissioning and cutting sod for new projects prior to the December 7 elections.

Former President John Dramani Mahama, flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has advised the people of Tain in the Bono Region not to be carried away by the sod-cutting agenda of the NPP ahead of the December 7 elections.

According to him, the sod cutting projects by President Akufo Addo “are all sakawa and would not see daylight”.

According to John Dramani Mahama, there is no money earmarked for those projects in the budget but “the NPP is cutting sods only to deceive the people of Ghana”.

The Flagbearer for the NDC John Dramani Mahama’s comment did not sink well with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who in a sharp rebuttal said that he would not sod cut for projects which are not budgeted for as used to be done by his predecessor [John Mahama].

The ruling NPP Chief Scribe being the next person to react to John Mahama’s comment on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show said that the former President made such a comment for the sake of politics.

He stressed that former President John Mahama is trying to play the ostrich man as he knows that even after the election on December 7, the mandate of the President continues to January 7 where a new President will be sworn-in.

He reiterated that former President John Dramani Mahama after losing the 2016 election on December 7 appointed a new Auditor-General on December 28, 2016, and awarded many contracts as well as commissioning projects.

“ . . when he lost the 2016 elections on December 7, he appointed a new Auditor-General on December 28, 2016. What he is saying, when he was the President by this time in October, did he stop commissioning projects? If he did not stop, then what is he talking about?”.

“I think he still thinks that Ghanaians have short memories and so we will not remember . . . he thinks he can say it and get away with it,” he fumed.