The General secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has stated that former President, John Mahama, should have known better as a statesman.
Reacting to the Former President’s ‘do or die’ comment, he described it as distasteful and one which does not belong under the nation’s democracy.
“It is a distasteful comment that does not belong in our fast-maturing electoral democracy. We note that John Mahama stubbornly refuses to retract. Rather, he is seeking refuge in semantics and grammar, struggling to explain the impossible”.
John Boadu
John Boadu further said the NPP is not surprised at the former President’s behavior adding that his behavior shows one who is desperate for power.
“However, we are not surprised. Being in opposition and desperate to come back to power, John Mahama must be panicking at the pace at which the Akufo-Addo Administration is moving. The President continues to commission completed projects and initiate new ones on his working tours of the country.
“Everywhere the President goes, there is fervent support for his policies which are visibly changing lives. Infrastructure is springing up fast in the new regions. One hundred and six 1D1F factories are working full blast with many more in the pipeline”.
John Boadu
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COVID management has opened space
John Boadu moreover posited that President Akufo-Addo’s sterling management of COVID-19 has opened the space for former President Mahama to move around easily. He added that growth is moving in the right direction under this government.
“We are the destination for the highest FDI inflows in West Africa. Agenda 111 has been launched with strong prospects to change the health sector to another level. In confirmation of these works, the IMF has granted Ghana one billion dollars in Special Drawing Rights without any conditionalities whatsoever.
“No wonder former President Mahama is desperate. He has no blueprint to match the progress he is seeing. He has no alternative for Ghanaians. Indeed, if he had something of substance to sell, he would not resort to the language of ‘do or die’.”
John Boadu
‘Do or Die’ depends on preparedness
John Boadu also stated that Mahama’s ‘do or die’ at the polling stations depends on the preparedness of the party. He added that the NDCs’ history shows they have never truly been prepared at polling stations and have not been able to design and implement an architecture that can deliver results at polling station to enable them inform themselves.
“In 2016, when they told the world they were in a comfortable lead, they had no inkling of the direction of the results. Again, in 2020, when they lost, they again told the world they had won and proceeded to the supreme court without a shred of evidence to back their claims.
“On the contrary, the NPP can tell within six hours, the results of a national election. Because we are serious about governance. John Mahama’s lack of electoral preparedness, which he blames on everybody but himself, stems from his own admission of indecisiveness as a leader. His own observations about his lack of decisiveness in his infamous autobiography reflects where he is now”.
John Boadu
John Boadu further indicated that the former President cannot understand that leadership is about vision and also does not know that leadership is about hope. He said John Mahama’s deeds and utterances will continue to expose his incompetence and desperation again.
