Four years ago, on December 7, 2016, Ghanaians in a fit of righteous anger voted in landslide fashion to kick out John Dramani Mahama’s corrupt and incompetent administration.
His poor record of governance reflected in the polls in which he made negative history as, arguably, the most woeful performing incumbent president in Africa and the world.
Four years earlier, in an election in which he was saved by the Supreme Court, he had similarly made negative history as his Electoral Commissioner messed the processes and the figures in a televised proceedings which exposed Ghana and its Electoral Commission as equally incompetent and complicit.
Having bitten more than he could chew, he nearly took Ghana to the brink of civil war by his greed and inordinate appetite for power, but for the extreme tolerance, maturity and patriotism of them opposition leader Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Has Mahama changed?
Again, four years on, the same incompetent, greedy and corrupt leader is back on the turf preaching strange political doctrines that threaten the peace, sanctity and development of the nation and its communities.
His mission, he claims, is that he has an unfinished business to do, including creating more Okada and galamsey jobs, when the bar has been raised to get to the moon in global partnerships that have been globally hailed.
He crashed the banking and financial systems of the country through poor monitoring, clueless policy and ‘a create, loot and share’ regime in which friends and cronies ‘broke in bank vaults’ and went on spending spree, buying Accra/Tema houses and large tracts of land to prosecute bogus real estate development businesses, while depositors wailed for their coins.
He raped brothers and sisters and uncles and aunties up North in scam agricultural projects and lied to nurses that there couldn’t be jobs for them, while offering public sector jobs, including prisons, immigration, Customs and the Ghana Armed Forces to party boys and girls.
By the end of his tenure, Ghana was dead broke and had to be consigned to an International Monetary Fund programme as our forests and water bodies, beaches and arable lands got degraded by the day – putting agriculture under further jeopardy.
Bawumia spot on
That is why it is important for Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia to remind Ghanaians about the events and circumstances that pushed Mahama out of power and why he should be left to hibernate till he does some penance to redeem himself of his past.
Dr Bawumia aptly captured it all: “After almost four years of stellar, decisive and competent leadership, we cannot go back to the era of incompetent, visionless leadership. We owe ourselves and generations unborn a duty to ensure that the NPP is given another term under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to continue with his transformational leadership [agenda].”
As the Vice-President noted, John Mahama so extremely desperate to win power that, despite his poor record and peccadilloes, he is conjuring imaginary initiatives that don’t quite jell with constituencies he has in mind, including Zongos, Okada bikers and galamsey operators.
As it is manifest in most of the sectors, it has on the contrary taken the incumbent President not only to tidy up Mahama’s mess, but also restore confidence in Ghana, its agriculture, industry, tourism, education and health as well as job creation, cutting a huge image as a leading nation in global economic growth.
That is why we would encourage all Ghanaians – for the sake of Ghana and our succeeding generations – to keep the faith and return President Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP to power in the December 7 general elections.
Let it not be said that when we righteously vomited the bile which was eating us up, we later behaved like the dog or pig and went back to that vomit again.
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