President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has come under fire from NDC presidential contender John Dramani Mahama for trying to shift blame for Ghana’s current economic woes.
He stated that the president never accepted responsibility for the incident.
The NDC’s branch and constituency executives heard from Mr. Mahama, who is vying for the presidency in 2024, on Tuesday at the Awutu Senya East and West Constituencies.
He expressed amazement that the president did not follow his lead but persisted in his refusal to take ownership of the country’s appalling situation.
When you listen to them, they say it is not their fault. Are they saying it is the fault of Ghanaians? Who went for all those loans? It was them. Yet whenever you tune in to the news, they say it was Covid-19 that caused our problems. They say it was Russian-Ukraine that caused them.”
“When the President went to Parliament to deliver the State of the Nation Address, I thought he would accept responsibility the way I did when we had an energy crisis in this country. I did not cause it; it was caused by a lack of addition to our (power) generation for many years. So, it got to a time, our demand had exceeded our ability to generate power,” he explained.
“I went to Parliament. I did not say I did not cause it. I said you elected me to take responsibility, so I take responsibility for it, and I will fix it. That is what leadership is about. This is a President who cannot take responsibility and if you can’t take responsibility, you can’t fix anything,” he said to wild cheers.
“Nothing can be fixed if the leader cannot take responsibility”, he insisted.
He asserts that assuming responsibility is a sign of effective leadership and that President Akufo-Addo lacks this trait.
In the meantime, as the primary elections draw near, John Mahama has been campaigning in several regions.
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