Ex-president John Mahama says the incompetence campaign waged by the then opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) dealt a heavy blow on his government.
According to him, the campaign, even though baseless, was so effective that even members of his own party started to believe that he and his government were incompetent.
That, he said, partly led to the defeat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2016 elections.
“They kept shouting incompetence, incompetence, incompetence until our own people started believing that we are incompetent,” he said to a flood of laughter that swept through a forum he held in London.
“Our own NDC guys think I am incompetent. These guys must be some super people. Now, look at the super. That is super incompetence,” he said, adding the NDC became complacent at some point in the 2016 elections. He also attributed the defeat to internal squabbles within the grassroots of the party.
The 2016 election was a campaign against power outages, corruption and economic hardships.
The then-running mate of candidate Akufo-Addo, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, and his wife, Samira Bawumia, waged a flawless campaign part of which was to describe the then president John Mahama as incompetent.
“When I see you, I see incompetence,” Samira said on countless occasions anytime she was presented with a platform to speak. Her husband was witty and with the poor performance of the country’s economy at the time, Dr Bawumia spared no effort in reminding his predecessor government how incompetent its officials were.
Having spent over a year in government, ex-president John Mahama said this was not the competent government the NPP promised in opposition.
“The NPP rolled out a very strong propaganda campaign. And of course, they had the media helping them.
He said had the NDC won the elections in 2016 it would have been difficult to govern the country.
“…God had a hand in what happened in 2016. If we had won the election there is nothing we will do that Ghanaians will appreciate. They will think there was a better alternative to us,” he said.
Source: adomonline.com
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aaah JDM paa eben asem ne ere ka no dem yi? na enyim de eye incompetent aa? aah in your own estimation was that how to run a government? surrounding yourself with minnows who made you look like a genius and falsely thought yourself to be. really if governance at the national level is all we saw from 2012-2016 then leading a nation is koko koraaa. charlie you wre just the word incompetent. you thought it was the figment of the minds of people that's why you have also began the tag super incompetent to make the sitting president look as such. please its results ooo not what people just say. check how things are going now and genuinely by your christian virtue you profess to have compare happenings of now with that of your time and let the Holy Spirit help you give a candid answer not a political propagandist one. I don finish my game for now.
Mr. Mahama, you know yourself that you were and still are incompetent par excellence. I cannot tell which one you are beat at: incompetence and corruption! Let's leave the judgement to Ex-President Rawlings. If you are rated excellent in corruption and incompetence, you will also be rated A+ in lieess
Yes you are incompetent .
Now he has asked his neighbours in Nima to vacate his surroundings under the guise of the National security. The Asantes, Dagbaanis and the Akwapims would not see anything wrong with this. Mr President just pass the RTI and pass a law that says that all politicians must declare their assets to the public in you are not corrupt like your predecessors.
Truth be told, the NPP is always corrupt with the property grabbing politics. They would reduce Ghana to nothing by 2020. Just be ready as gov't in waiting. Some of us are already tired with all the lies and family and friends with concubine's presidency of Nana Addo.
The deception of the hobrede hoi and the kokoliko vice president with the fulani wife worked. Ghana is now a tail side story. The frog voice of the midget president is working. The Akans in their bewilderment are at it again. They think Ghana is for them.
Yes, Mr Mahama, you were incompetent big time. Even look at dumso only. You collapsed many companies and small businesses. Look at your vision "toaso" and compare it to Akuffo-Addo's "Ghana beyond Aid". There is a huge difference. Toaso ede3 ben so? Continue with Corruption and sika basabasa that bedevil your government. You were visionless except awarding contracts because there were kickbacks in these transactions.
EX PRESIDENT DONT WORRY I KNOW YOU NEVER PLANED TO BE A PRESIDENT THE DEATH OF ATTA MILLS MADE IT SO IT BECOMES DIFFICULT FOR SOMETHING YOU DID NOT PLAN PREZ NANA ADDO HAD PLANNED 20 YEARS AGO I REST MY CASE BYE GOD BLESS YOU
Yes you were seriously incompetent...... Too many misjudgements... bus branding scandal, your ford bribe from Kanazoe, cancelling of teacher trainees allowances.... and many many many more....
You are very right. God had a hand in the 2016 election and indeed you are also right, there is a better alternative to NDC government. The NPP administration needs time to sort the mess you left behind and to get the Country back to the path of progress. Its my prayer that the likes of you and your C-O-RR-UPT and arro-g-ant officials never walk the corridors of power.