Daring The Loudmouth (2)

 

Democracy is about the involvement of all in the decision-making process.

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and other political parties have launched their campaigns to wrest power from the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). In their moves, the NDC, especially its leader, John Mahama have come up with all kinds of sweet promises to “deceive” the people to vote for them.

We have witnessed the NDC 2020 running mate, Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang struggling to convince the youth to return the party to power when John Mahama’s abysmal performance prior to the 2016 elections remains a scar in our lives.

We know the ruling NPP is waiting for Naana Jane, and this time around her stewardship of the Ministry of Education would come up for scrutiny.

The NPP is battle-ready and its flagbearer, Veep Mahamudu Bawumia is on the brink of breaking the eight, but the appointees must avoid scoring own goals such as VAT on electricity tariffs and emission levy.

The nation is ready to hear from our financial whiz kid, Veep Bawumia at the UPSA. We await your blueprint to bring the economy back to life albeit the challenges because John Mahama is not the alternative, who after claiming the Akufo-Addo government has made life unbearable is asking for honeymoon to cool off.

Every Ghanaian knows the platforms that Veep Bawumia presented in 2016, nonetheless, it is only the dishonest in the ranks of the NDC who would say nothing was achieved.

To such characters such as Prof Ransford Gyampo, Sammy Gyamfi, Professors Bokpin and Gatsi as well as Martin Kpebu, if the gains of the Akufo-Addo regime is held at their eyeballs, they would not see the successes chalked up before COVID-19.

We call on Sammy Gyamfi to now tell Ghanaians the reasons for which John Mahama went to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2015 for policy credibility at the time there was no global economic challenge. Was it not mere economic mismanagement by the Mahama government?  Was Sammy Gyamfi a teenager when in 2013 after the 2012 elections, John Mahama told Ghanaians that the national coffers are depleted because his government has chewed the meat to the extent that “we are left with the bones?”

That unprecedented mismanagement of the economy by John Mahama culminated in the longest ever load shedding in the country to the extent that dumsor is now part of the English Language lexicon.

So clueless was John Mahama in resolving the economic crisis that out of frustration he burst out claiming the increased charging of mobile phones was the cause of dumsor.

Let us again ask you, Sammy Gyamfi, between your master John Mahama that you unashamedly worship as your saviour and Vice President Bawumia, whose record would receive international acclaim? Between John Mahama and Vice President Bawumia, there can be no debate as it would be like comparing oranges with guava.

Be that as it may, Ghanaians look forward to that debate of the decade between John Mahama and Veep Bawumia. As for Kofi Bentil, we encourage you to be firm and stand by your convictions regardless of the smear campaign by the NDC, a section of the media, academia and civil society.

Meanwhile, few hours to the great vision of Veep Bawumia, the appetite of Ghanaians for the next forward match is at fever pitch. We will troop to the auditorium of the UPSA to listen to the next phase of the digital economy that pales the 24-hour dream into oblivion.

The NDC is not resting on its oars to discredit the NPP government. They have put out in the public domain a story about the Ghana Cocoa Board under the watch of President Akufo-Addo importing cocoa beans when the practice is common in the industry.

We shall return to this later. The people of Ghana in the meantime await the debate between Veep Bawumia and John Mahama.

It would be a father and son contest or a professor versus his student.

 

 

 

 

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