We won’t allow you to joke your way out of your incompetence – NPP replies Mahama

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has challenged President John Dramani Mahama to show Ghanaians his so-called “impressive” track record since he assumed office.

“One would have hoped that President Mahama, whilst campaigning in the Volta Region, would have done his possible best to shed off the incompetency tag Ghanaians have come to associate him with, and rather show to Ghanaians his so-called “impressive” track record in office,” the NPP noted.

The NPP threw the challenge to President Mahama in a statement signed by Acting Chairman of the party, Freddie Blay.

The statement was a response to a comments made by the President's during a rally in the Volta Region to round off his "Changing Lives Transforming Ghana" tour.

The President described the NPP as a party in turmoil and questioned who the the Chairman of the NPP was. "Who is your chairman?" he quizzed.

“We are sorry to disappoint you, President Mahama. We will not descend into the gutter with you, where you are comfortably, but strangely, languishing in of late,” the statement noted.

According to the NPP, it is evident that President Mahama prefers to concentrate his attention on the NPP, as opposed to telling Ghanaians what he and his NDC government have used the GH¢200 billion in revenues, from taxes, loans, export receipts, etc. over the last 7 years for.

The party asserted that President Mahama is disappointed and sad that Ghanaians are no longer focusing on the NDC-induced internal happenings in the NPPNPP but, rather, on his incompetence and the spectacular failure of his NDC government in running the affairs of the nation since 2009, hence his recent attacks on NPP.

The NPP accused President Mahama of providing a safe haven at the seat of Government, for corrupt officials who have gleefully looted the coffers of the state.

“Under President Mahama’s watch, the resources of the state have been subjected to a system of “create, loot and share.” We have seen bodies like GYEEDA and SADA, which were ostensibly set up to stimulate growth and to provide jobs for young people, become vehicles of corruption,”

“We have a government that has abandoned the teachings of the Public Procurement Act and made sole sourcing of contracts the norm, not the exception, as the Act mandates. The wanton abuse of the law has brought in its wake a corresponding massive increase in corruption.”

The party served notice to President Mahama saying, “We will not allow you to joke your way out of your incompetence. We, in the NPP, will not allow your government to run away from the broken promises, the widespread corruption, rising levels of unemployment, high cost of living, worsening conditions of living of Ghanaians, erratic supply of power (dumsor), hopelessness and despair you have plunged this nation into. We will not engage in a war-of-words with you. However, we will not shirk our responsibility of exposing you and your incompetence, and the theft of scarce public resources by yourself, and members of your administration.”

Touching on the President Mahama’s analysis of the country’s debt which has escalated to GHc94.5billion, the NPP stated that “We want to tell President Mahama to check his mathematics, because he has once again incompetently exposed his lack of knowledge of the subject.”

“We want to tell him that GH¢9.5 billion, representing the total public debt stock left by President Kufuor, out of GH¢94.5 billion, which is Ghana’s total debt stock, expressed as a percentage can in no way be 41%, as he stated in Ho.Surely, a live rabbit is better than a dead goat.”

Source: Michael Creg Afful

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