General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has slammed former President John Dramani Mahama as a man with no appreciation of the principles of leadership.
The former President, he said, is still oblivious that leadership is about vision and giving hope despite being the greatest beneficiary of high profile positions within the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC),
“This is a man who has been MP, Deputy Minister, Minister, Vice President, President and losing Presidential Candidate and yet he does not know or understand that leadership is about vision and about hope,” he stated.
Responding to the former President’s infamous ‘do or die’ comment at a press conference on Friday, which has attracted condemnation from sections of the Ghanaian society, the NPP scribe described the remark as distasteful and does not belong to Ghana’s fast-maturing electoral democracy.
He averred that Mr. Mahama’s stubborn refusal to retract and apologize is not surprising because of his desperation to come back to power.
“John Mahama is seeking refuge in semantics and grammar, struggling to explain the impossible because he is panicking at the pace at which the Akufo-Addo government 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.”
According to Mr. Boadu, infrastructure continues to spring up fast in the new regions with 106 1D1F factories working full blast and many more in the pipeline.
President Akufo-Addo’s sterling management of Covid-19, he said, has opened the space for former President Mahama to move around easily.
“Growth is moving in the right direction and 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 and in confirmation of these works, the IMF has granted Ghana one billion dollars in Special Drawing Rights without any conditionalities whatsoever,” he added.
He noted that Mr. Mahama has no blueprint to match the progress he is seeing hence his desperation is no surprise because he has no alternative for the Ghanaian people.
According to him, if the NDC 2020 election flagbearer had something of substance to sell he would not resort to the language of ‘do or die.
He said, “Do or die’ at polling stations depends on the preparedness of the party. The NDCs’ history shows they have never truly been prepared at polling stations.”
“They have not been able to design and implement an architecture that can deliver results at polling stations to enable them to inform themselves.”
According to him, in 2016 when the NDC told the world they were in a comfortable lead, they had no inkling of the direction of the results and 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.
The NPP on the other hand, he said, could tell within six hours the results of a national election because the party is serious about governance.
He averred that John Mahama’s lack of electoral preparedness that he blames on everybody but himself stems from his own indecisiveness as a leader and added, “His own observations about his lack of decisiveness in his infamous autobiography reflects where he is now.”
He stated that the NPP will not expend precious hours persuading Mr. Mahama of the error of his ways and that his deeds and utterances will continue to expose his incompetence and desperation again and again as the indecisive and visionless person he confessed to being, simply incapable of leading the cherished democracy Ghana is carefully building.
The incompetent and desperate Mahama, he said, should therefore be given no space to come to the corridors of power because the best way for Ghana is the NPP way.
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