Former President John Mahama seem to be smarting from the humiliating defeat he suffered in the hands of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa almost one year after his exist as president of the country.
This time, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) 2016 presidential candidate believes he lost the presidential bid to Nana Addo because he failed to make juicy promises to the electorates.
According to him, he had all the opportunities to compete with the NPP for the wildest promises during the 2016 polls but declined the temptation and turned down suggestions to follow that trajectory.
Nana Addo was declared Ghana’s 5th President of the Fourth Republic after an impressive performance in the 2016 presidential poll.
The three-time lucky NPP leader polled 5,716,026 to beat incumbent President John Mahama who had 4,713, 277.
The declaration of Nana Akufo-Addo as winner of the election brought to an end the era of the ‘John’ presidency which saw John Rawlings, John Kufuor, John Mills and John Mahama all taking their turn as president from 1992 to 2016.
But Former President Mahama speaking at the NDC’s Unity Walk in Tarkwa in the Western Region over the weekend attributed his defeat to his inability to make empty promises.
He claimed that several people came to tell him to make promises as was done by the NPP insisting he was not trained to make empty promises.
Mr. Mahama had taken on the then NPP presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over his many campaign promises, describing him as desperate man.
Mr Akufo-Addo had promised to provide free senior high school (SHS) education, make available $1million to each of the 275 constituencies, construct one factory in each of the 216 districts and abolish some nuisance taxes.
Ex-president Mahama said he cringed when that promise was made because as president then, he knew the state coffers was not healthy to support that ambitious plan.
“We were in government and we said it is not possible,” he said of the $1million-to-each-constituency promise.
He said his values in life are similarly shared by all NDC members and that prevents them from making promises they will not be able to fulfill.
“NDC is a party that doesn’t lie [and] what we can’t do, we won’t say we will do and what we say we will, we do them,” he said, adding Ghanaians are now disappointed with the government.
Source: The Publisher
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Incompetent John Mahama lost bcos of corruption and greediness of himself and his appointees..... Go and read the so called confidential Kwesi Botwey report you will find the rest of the reasons there..... Your lost has nothing to do with campaign promises... NDC promised one time premium for the NHIS and failed to implement it.... Campaign promises are not binding... it is the electorates who decide in the end....
it very irritating to hear a former president talk like this, so it means he will also be promising juicy if given the nod to contest he is even insulting the majority of Ghanaians who voted for the current president that we can't think and we just vote because of juicy promise.He should check his BP if he is coming back to contest for a big defeat awaits him.
Its not true, you lied severally by promising to construct 200 SHS schools but what happened. Again your 'small boy' Deputy Ministers were too insulting that infuriated some of us to vote against you, if you care to know. I will not vote for someone I am older than to insult me. Why!!!!!!
John mahama still don't get it. What sort of human being is that? please if you left your brains in your mother's womb go for it, apart from the Kwesi Botchway's report the founder of the party told them why they lost still this guy thinks Ghanaians were st*pid to be taking for granted. Somebody tell him he could win Bole Bamboi seat for good because they think like him so whatever he did was normal to them but to those Ghanaians who voted to send him to opposition had different thought and found his actions and diarrhoea mouth was not normal and not helpful to the country which they are the majority. Let him still talk from his post election defeat trauma which is still working on them and making them behave like abnormal human beings. Who told john mahama Ghanaians liked his thi*very,incompetence,inflated contracts,insults,impunity and arrogance of his appointees, show of power and orders from above, the hardship and suffering of the people was nothing to him very ins*nsitive and wicked president who thinks he didn't deceive the people enough for them to vote for him, who said to john mahama the Ghanaian people wanted somebody who called himself a de*dgoat as president? somebody tell mahama his everything about Ghana was wrong and he never did anything good to help the people. The people didn't like him to be their president because he hasn't got that courage and wisdom to be president he was there for his family and friends business and the people decided themselves to boot him and his gang of cr00ks away but not under anybody's influence, Ghanaians can think for themselves unlike you who can't decide for yourself. John mahama your 2020 defeat will explain to you clearly we don't like you as the president of the republic because you lack sense to rule a nation.
So Mahama why did you contested for the 2016 elections if you did not have any promise for Ghanaians? So you think presidency is about ***barred word***, corruption, milking the country etc. It is better when you keep mute. Empty head.
LOOK AT HIM, WHAT PROMISE CAN U GIVE TO THE PEOPLE OF GHANA, U LOST BECAUSE NDC CAME TO CHOPCHOP GHANA'S MONEY. GHANAIANS ARE NOT FOOOOLS. REMEMBER WAYOME, AKOMFEM, BUS BRANDING, GIVEN CONTRACT TO UR BROTHER. LOOT AND SHARE. PLEASE JUST KEEP QUITE IF U DONT HAVE ANY INFORMATION TO GIVE UR PEOPLE. THANK GOD NANA FULFILLING HIS PROMISE .
Li@r. You lost because your style of governance was just baa@@d. By the way, go and study Kwesi Botchway's report
It is not about juicy promises. You has no message. Not even one!!! All i heard was oonaaapo