Mahama said during his tour of Accra and its environs, he was able to gather the needed support from “frustrated” party members. He traveled more than 600km across the region, meeting with a minimum of 69,000 branch and regional executives. He thanked all supporters for welcoming him. During his visit, he praised the accomplishments of his country’s minister for education but stated that Ghanaian leaders did not seem to be making much progress in solving their nation’s problems.
“In 2016 our colleagues at the NPP told a lot of lies about us, they labelled us as incompetent and they came with a lot of big and sweet promises to the people of Ghana and used that to persuade the people that they will be a better government than we were.
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“And so the people of Ghana tried them by voting for them, they said they should try them and that was the mistake the people of Ghana made because we have come to realise that after all the ‘we have the men. we have the men’ it was station boys, they don’t know anything,”he stated .
He added, “If you take our ministers who were running this country in 2016 and compare them with their ministers who are running Ghana today pound for pound, our ministers were far better than any of them.”
Mr. Mahama admitted that he inherited several challenges and stated that he was working to resolve them, particularly the electricity crisis (Dumsor).”We solved many difficult challenges; dumsor was not created by us; it was a lack of generation capacity over time, and so when we came into office, we were confronted with it; we did not flee, we did not shift the blame to someone else.”
“I could have said Presidents Rawlings, Kuffuor, and Mills did not add new generation, but what we did was take responsibility, and I went to Parliament and said yes, you elected us to take responsibility, and we will fix it.”
“Truly, by the time we left in 2016, we had fixed dumsor, we had fixed the generational challenges Indeed, they accused us of putting in too much generation than we needed.”
