John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has accused the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) government of running Ghana's economy into debt.
The NDC's flagbearer, while addressing a gathering of party supporters at Amanfrom as part of phase 2 of his Greater Accra regional campaign, said the NPP cannot escape blame for how low Ghana's economy has sunk.
Mahama said the situation would been worse if Ghana was repaying her debt, which he said commences in 2025 after a new government has taken over. "They [NPP] cannot escape blame for where they have landed us.
They have heaped a huge debt on the people of Ghana and the reason why the Cedi is even still stable is that this year, we are not repaying any of our debts.
Debt repayment starts next year, when the next government comes.
And so even when you are not paying your debts, the Cedi is moving every week and it is now past GH¢16 and still moving." He further intimated that Ghanaians would have scored the NPP's flagbearer, Dr.
Mahamudu Bawumia, an 'F' if the running of the economy was an exam. "Recently, I heard the flagbearer of the NPP, the vice president, saying that he has performed excellently as vice president so they should promote him to president.
And I said, I don't know who marked his script and whether he marked it himself, but I can tell him that when it comes to his performance, the mark that the people of Ghana will give him for management of the economy is F, fail. "The mark that the people of Ghana will give him for management of the economy is F.
F means fail.
Because when it comes to the economy, they failed completely, absolutely.
And they cannot escape blame for where they have landed us."