Last night the former President Mahama Stages a political campaign disguised as a digital address to the nation on COVID-19 in what was essentially a regurgitation of what President Nana Addo is doing and wanting to claim them as suggestions on how to fight the COVID-19, the typical "copy copy" he is. Efforts and measures Nana Addo has been praised and recognized for the world over.
I sympathize with President Mahama as he tries to remain politically relevant and enter the political space and have a voice within this tragic and urgent time when there is no room for politics and parochial interest. He feels crowded out and must create that space to be seen and heard to be doing something even if it is irrelevant.
I confess though that he looked a bit more Ghanaian wearing his made in Ghana shirt, after ditching his usual kaftan. The Nana Addo effect on John Mahama was on display as he tried looking and sounding more Presidential including wearing reading glasses. At least he was promoting made in Ghana goods, a good lesson he has learned from Nana.
On a serious note, however, the whole address was a repeat of what President Nana Addo is doing, except the former President presents them as his own ideas he is suggesting to fight COVID-19. There was no single original idea in the whole address, typical of him, he lacks conviction and originality and I won't fault him for that which he himself has acknowledged in his book. However, his address reinforced my trust in Nana Addo as doing the right things to curb this pandemic. The John Mahama digital address was a stamp of approval of President Nana Addo's work so far.
For instance, President Mahama reiterated several times the need for testing, contact tracing, and treatment as the way to go. Fortunately for us, Ghana under Nana Addo Is leading the whole of Sub-saharan Africa in testing, tracing and treatment.
Furthermore, President Mahama asked for Ghana to locally manufacture face masks and other PPE's. Ghanaian companies which collapsed under his government today thanks to Nana Addo's policy to take advantage of the COVID-19 and become self-sufficient, same companies are producing face mask and hand sanitizers among others and even exporting same to neighboring countries.
He also asked for Ghana to make efforts at producing vaccines to reduce the cost. I am not sure if President Nana Addo's addresses are lost on him but this is something already in the pipeline.
Unfortunately, typical of the Ex-President, whilst he was busy touting what Nana Addo Is doing as his own, he went a bit too far insulting ECOWAS Presidents and world leaders.
The former President belittles current Presidents of ECOWAS When he says he suggested a virtual meeting among them a few weeks ago based on his experience during the Ebola outbreak.
It was even more nauseating when he suggested that he advised world leaders at the UN general assembly during the Ebola outbreak, but which advise wasn't taken leading to the current spread.
His lack of appreciation of the enormity of the COVID-19pandemic and on the lives and economies of the world leads him to make comparisons between the two. For education purposes, less than 20 countries were affected by Ebola and none of them was shut or lockdown as a result. COVID-19 has affected over 180 countries and the world is on lockdown with tens of trillions of dollars required to restart the world economy with hundreds of thousands dead. His attempt to make himself relevant in these difficult times for political purposes only tells how parochial and self-centered he is.
However, I have a few questions for the former President.
1. The Gen Secretary of the NDC stated when the President announced a lockdown that it was meant to rig elections. Since the lift, President Mahama says it's for political reasons. What is his and his party's position on the lockdown and the lifting of the partial ban?
2. If he was President and based on the data and science available to him which is not available to the current President, would he have kept the country locked down and for how long?
3. If he was President, would he have given every Ghanaian free electricity, free food, free data as he and his party seem to be espousing?
The former President is a good talker, a nice gentleman but who unfortunately lacks conviction, flip flops on everything, and lacks originality with no proven record of starting and completing anything but good at borrowing and making people's ideas as his own.
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Source: Richard Nyamah, Dep Communications Director, NPP
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Who is the most corrupt person in Ghana - JDM Who is government official 1 in the air bus scandal - JDM Which president supervised the ASKA deal -JDM Which president cancelled teachers allowance - JDM Which president cancelled nurses allowance - JDM Which president introduced Dumsor to Ghana -JDM Which president always reviews peoples ideas - JDM Which president took a bribe from a Burkinabe contractor -JDM Which president gave over 50% of Ghanas bauxite deposit to his brother - JDM Which president allowed his brother to evade tax - JDM Which president inflated the cost of infrastructural projects for his benefit -JDM Which president stood against the introduction of free SHS - JDM Which president only seeks advise from past presidents and nobody else- JDM Which president is incompetent and booted out only to surface as an opposition leader to tag the show boy president as super incompetent- JDM Which president even in Dumsor could increase electricity bills- JDM Which president had no message for the people of Ghana than wheeeeew and ababase - JDM Which past president in the second quarter of an election year has no vice president and manifesto- JDM. Oh JDM can't you see the sign on the wall that you are salt which has lost its TASTE and cannot be used for nothing.
The guy is coming like kakai. If u know u have spent some cash on any of the so called covid intervention programs, make sure u keep the receipt. Cos there will be a day for accountability for all funds donated and its distribution.
JDM presidency for you is finish... he can go to hell and come he will chop last again....agbenaaa for him... ndc should bring another candidate , for him he is finish....He cant even come pout with his vice Presidential material.....shameeeeeleesss jdm...
You NPP wolves think you can insult JDM at the least but this Oldman ***barred word*** who calls himself president is more ***barred word*** than any Ghanaian and African president ever. So so super incompetent he has colapsed the economy but will later blame covid 19
Jdm must be advice that he is disgracing himself and when he talks he must listened to himself as founder advised them,what propaganda economics was he talking about is it adongo theory or his manifesto promise eiii Mahama which equipment was yours economy on when you went to IMF which ficical space did you create talk they say is cheap
His excellency John Dramani Mahama should keep having this interactions, because it is getting on the nerves of the npp. No one can stop him from heading that path. He should keep putting the government on its toes. He shouldn't mind the criticisms of the npp. What he is doing is so good and most of us level headed persons love it so much. What is so refreshing about his interaction is that he engages, and does not read on paper like the president does. When it comes to reading what someone has written, even my 5 year old boy can read. Leadership is ability to speak on subjects without written speeches. In this COVID 19 era, the president had not for ones engaged in questions and answers session with Ghanaians. All he does is operates like the owl coming to read speeches at midnight to Ghanaians.
You can only say this on this platform @Kankama since we all know where their loyalty belongs. And @Richard, why are you angry? It is like, you are not in the comfortable seat you guys think you are and you are at quick to react and call names immediately he speaks. I thought you guys said, for JM, election 2020 is a cool chop, but it doesn't look so ooo. He is a pain in your necks to the extent that you can't even see straight. All your articulated speech, we have heard you, just let it be like that, don't worry. Whether he stole the ideas or not, it is December 7, that will speak. Our president equally stole someone speech and we all know about that, so chill okay. And please to your questions, let me answer them for him, he would have done all that and even better okay, you know that, but by the fact that you belong to NPP and you loyalty is there, you can't admit it. Or else, you will loose your position, too bad for you. I am neutral person, but I don't like young guys like you being politically blind and being disloyal to your country. It is bad, bring back the loyalty we want, they are old, you and l have responsibilities towards our country and you are going wayward. Sit down and think through, you are being blind. Thanks.
C0rrupt Mahama must tell us one social intervention programme during his presidency..... Today he is all over the place telling government what to do, to the extent of telling government to pay people's rent. The guy is fraud.... The person who cancelled nurses allowance and used the money for campaign. What id he do for businesses during his dumsor years? He rather increased electric charges. The guy is desperate for power which he will never get. He is greedy and c0rrupt.