– Mahama mocks president again
Former President John Mahama, did not hold back when he poked fun at President Akufo-Addo and the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) at Suhum in the Eastern Region.
According to him, the President and his cronies while in opposition used ‘big English’ and ‘slang’ to propagate misinformation about his government but are struggling to deliver now that they have the mandate.
“They have a foreign accent, but I have a Ghanaian accent. But these numerous slangs and big English doesn’t develop a country,” Mr Mahama said when addressing a group of NDC delegates on Wednesday.
The former President who is seeking a second term subsequently went further to mimic the President and Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia’s well-known ‘incompetent Mahama’ mantra in 2016.
Amidst laughter and mimicry, Mr Maham repeated “NPP is gonna [sic] come and transform Ghana in one and a half years. When we come we’ll give you one district, one factory.”
Mr Mahama burst out laughing after a series of famous quotes by President Akufo-Addo including “yԑ tse sika so nnanso ԑkom de hen” to wit “we have wealth but we are suffering.”
This is the first time the former President has made fun of the incumbent government. In March, he teased Dr Bawumia on his “we [NPP] have a solid economic management team” comment.
At the same event, the former President announced a plan to devolve the work of the NDC’s Party School to the various regions to train and re-orient branch and constituency executives on the ideals and history of the party.
Mr Mahama noted that “it is not enough to say you are an NDC executive. You must understand what the party stands for.”
Mr Mahama says because the NDC’s 2024 campaign will be anchored around the party’s branch executives across the country, it will require that they are not only resourced to carry out an effective campaign but also equipped with continuous training.
“We will therefore send all branch and constituency executives to the Party school to learn about the party, our ideology, its origins, Jerry Rawlings and about the Revolution, and the party constitution.”
According to the former president, the plan is to decentralize the operations of the Party School into the regions, adding that the training will also focus on the functions of the executives, the NDC’s policies, campaigning, voter mobilization and canvassing among others. The former president is on a three-day campaign tour of the Eastern Region.
The ‘Building the Ghana we want Together’ tour is visiting 31 out of the 33 constituencies of the region in this phase of the campaign. He has visited 7 other regions and is expected to receive an overwhelming endorsement from the party’s delegates to the May 13, 2023, presidential primaries.
