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Deputy Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, Hon. Sampson Ahi has rubbished the NPP’s ‘True State of the Nation Address’ presented on Monday by the Minority in parliament.

He described the presentation as a “ritual” by the NPP to defile President Mahama’s great successes.

According to him, what the minority read “cannot be the true State of the Nation Address”.

“What they [Minority] did yesterday is part of their yearly rituals…so as part of their rituals, they always try to rubbish President Mahama’s State of the Nation Address. This is unfortunate but they should keep it up,” he said. 

The NPP, in their ‘True State of the Nation Address’, emphasized some shortfalls in President John Mahama’s State of the Nation address to Parliament barely two weeks ago.

Minority leader, Osei -Kyei Mensah-Bonsu who delivered the address noted that the country is in real difficulty under the NDC Mahama-led administration.

The law-maker revealed that the country's severe energy crises, the suspended organisation of the district level elections and many other issues which the President did not articulate.

But speaking on OKAY FM’s "Ade Akye Ebia" programme, the NDC MP for Bodi, opined that “the NPP’s ‘True State of the Nation Address should have captured Yaw Osafo-Marfo’s tribal statement. That is the true state of the nation address now. Why didn’t they mentioned that in their statement? It is of course an issue to be discussed”. 

He however noted that the NPP has no alternative to the issues they have raised in their address after describing them as charlatans who just want to banter President Mahama’s accomplishments with lies.