The Minority in Parliament has issued a scathing response to President John Dramani Mahama's 120-day performance report, accusing him of betraying the reformist promises that brought him back to power and instead presiding over what they called a "recycled failure." Addressing a press conference on Thursday, May 8, Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin dismissed the President's special broadcast as an empty exercise in self-congratulation, insisting that Ghanaians are yet to see real results from the administration's social contract. "This is not just a speech; it is a call to remembrance and resistance," Afenyo-Markin declared. "It is a forensic audit of the presidency that campaigned with the urgency of a reformer but now governs with the indifference of a ruler long exhausted by ideas." He warned that President Mahama's momentum has waned barely four months into his return to office, describing the current phase of his leadership as the "lame duck days." "Now the 120 days are over, the promises have collapsed, the excuses have run dry, the reckoning must begin," he stated, adding "Let it be said plainly to every Ghanaian - you were not given a reset; you were sold a recycled failure." The Minority Leader accused the Mahama administration of "trading the will of the people for political convenience" and called on Ghanaians to "rise up to defend the Republic." The opposition's counter-narrative follows President Mahama's claim in his national address that his government had exceeded expectations on key reforms, including tax cuts, legislative overhauls, and institutional clean-ups.
But Afenyo-Markin said the touted gains are "cosmetic" and fail to address the core issues of economic hardship, unemployment, and governance inertia.
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