Thursday, 18 August 2016

PRESS STATEMENT: PRESIDENT MAHAMA'S OLYMPICS OF INSULTS AND BRIBERY OF THE ELECTORATE

President Mahama claimed last Sunday 14th August in Cape Coast that the Npp will win a medal for lnsults at the Olympics.
 For such an aspiring Olympic referee, it is a shame that President Mahama has not taken into account his own leadership in this competition of lnsults.

 President Mahama at the last Ndc congress in Kumasi before the Cape Coast congress, diagnosed the then general secretary of the CPP Mr lvor Greenstreet as suffering from *"incurable myopia"*.

 President Mahama has gone on to tell Ghanaians last year that he would not take criticism from anyone who has never been president before, and that the only people he would take criticism from are former presidents Rawlings and Kufour.

 So the good people of Ghana, who elected President Mahama, cannot be fit to criticize him because they have never been president before.

 There can be no greater insult on Ghanaians. *If anyone was looking for a Gold medal for lnsults, this is it*.

 BRIBERY OF THE ELECTORATE
The Ghana lntegrity lnitiative (GII) has accused President Mahama of Vote Buying and Abuse Of incumbency.

 This GII accusation has followed President Mahama's open distribution of large quantities of outboard motors for fishing *at an Ndc campaign event last Monday right at the start of his official campaign*

 *So after all these years, President Mahama cannot distinguish between an official government ocassion and a partisan political party campaign event/ ocassion*
The Npp calls on all well meaning Ghanaians to condemn this act of President Mahama at this stage of our democratic development.
Ghanaians will recall how in the 2012 election, President Mahama engaged in this same vote buying exercise.

 In pursuit of this, his government ran up a record and unprecedented deficit of $4.2 billion dollars (12%) in fiscal year 2012, the highest in the history of the fourth republic.
It is this reckless deficit in 2012 that caused the weakening of the cedi to become by mid 2014 the worst depreciated currency in the whole wide world.
It is that record deficit in 2012 that caused donors to suspend assistance to Ghana for fiscal years 2013 and 2014.

 It is this reckless deficit that caused President Mahama in 2014 to ran to the IMF for *policy credibility*

 President Mahama seems to be starting on this same path of vote buying again right at the start of his 2016 campaign.

 For a government that claims to have delivered so much *development* to the Ghanaian people, and whose *one touch* victory is assured, why this resort to abuse of incumbency and bribery of the electorate.?

 Or is it the case that President Mahama discovers Charity when elections are due?
*Ghanaians must rise up and save our economy from further destruction by President Mahama* by showing him and his government the red card on 7th of December.

Nana Akomea
Director of Communications