Former President John Mahama has admitted that all was not rosy in Ghana during his tenure.
However, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) believes the living conditions were better compared to what is happening under the Akufo-Addo led government.
Speaking to electorates at Techiman North in the Bono East region, Mr Mahama argued that he offered a better governance than what has being experienced in the past eight years.
“I won’t say in 2016 when NDC was in power it was heaven but it was better than today. It’s been almost eights years they came into power, but now they will say things are better than my administration, how can they say that?
“When Mahama was in power, a bag of cement was GH₵26 but now it’s more than GH₵100. Under Mahama, you could buy a gallon of petrol for GH₵14 but now you can’t even get a piece of broken bottle. You could buy a dollar with GH₵4 but now you need GH₵16,” he stated.
The hundreds of youth who were listening to him needed to hear encouraging messages and that’s exactly what the NDC flagbearer gave.
In his conversation, John Mahama urged the crowd to simply compare his four years rule to the current regime’s performance.
He also expressed concerns on the unusual currency depreciation, price hikes, and increased cost of living.
Mr Mahama reiterated that, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Vawumia is indeed an economist Ghana never got and should partly be blamed for what he describes as a grounded economy.
Source: Kwame Anum
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