Mahama almost won the 2012 elections, which were afterwards challenged at the Supreme Court by the New Patriotic Party.
He became the ' flagbearer for the 2012 acclamation afterwards commutual the abounding appellation of the backward Ex-President Evans Atta Mills.
As flagbearer, Mahama ran a abundant attack abounding of dank promises beneath the affair "Advancing the Better Ghana Agenda," with the tagline "e dey beee kɛkɛ" (to wit "it is too sweet").
After acceptable the elections, expectations of Ghanaians were unsurprisingly aerial afterward the promises made.
However, Mahama's administering was bedeviled by a countless of problems, including a austere bread-and-butter downturn, adolescence unemployment, and an aberrant 4-year activity crisis, which brought about the abominable chat "dumsor," a bearings that bedridden the advance of businesses.
As a result, Mahama and the NDC absent the 2016 elections to the New Patriotic Affair led by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
President Akufo-Addo exhausted Mahama by the better allowance beneath the 4th Republic, with abounding Ghanaians anecdotic Mahama as "incompetent" and abounding of ambiguous promises.
However, above President Mahama has fabricated a improvement into the presidential race, bringing calefaction aloft himself and his party.
Mahama has appear beneath acute analysis apropos his candor to accomplish his promises back he and the NDC bootless abysmally amid 2012 and 2017, abnormally as he comes up with new promises afterward the barrage of his 2024 Attack on Saturday, July 27, at Tamale Jubilee Park.
With abounding bodies carper Mahama's integrity, abstracts accessible and aggregate with the accessible conspicuously reveals how the abridgement cannot be entrusted into his easily again. According to the absolute data, Mahama accomplished alone 28% of his above promises in the 2012 NDC Manifesto.
The abstracts shows Mahama fabricated as abounding as 280 promises, out of which alone 77 were delivered, apery a paltry 28%. This agency that Mahama, afterwards actuality adopted into appointment in 2012, did not accomplish a whopping 203 promises he fabricated to Ghanaians, apery 68% of the annoyed promises.
Out of the 203, 46 of those promises were above promises that bedeviled the 2012 elections in areas such as administration of the economy, infrastructure, education, amusing intervention, industrialization, arctic development, taxation, adolescence employment, amid others.
Interestingly, abounding of these promises were additionally again at the 2012 IEA presidential debate.
Below is the absolute account of the 280 (both annoyed and fulfilled) attack promises by Mahama: