Some pronunciations by Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as then running mate projected the administration of John Dramani Mahama as a bunch of incompetent people according to Prof. Ransford Gyampo.
But the University of Ghana Professor of Political Science says the current state of affairs under the Akufo-Addo administration makes it super incompetent compared to Mahama’s own.
Speaking on Dr. Bawumia’s election as flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Prof. Ransford Gyampo said the Vice President’s lectures did a lot of good to bring the party to power, but only comes to do the opposite of what was preached.
On the manner with which the NPP ousted then incumbent NDC led by John Dramani Mahama, the political science lecturer said the over a million votes that the NPP got in difference to what the then administration obtained spoke volumes of how Dr. Bawumia’s lectures amongst, others created disaffection for the then government.
He has therefore described the recent regime as worse when compared to what the NDC served Ghanaians with.
“In the history of electoral politics in Ghana, no political party has benefited from over one million votes difference in winning, it has never happened. It tells you the level of trust, the confidence that we had in this current regime.
“And one of the factors that brought about the level of trust and confidence was the kind of lectures that Vice President Bawumia gave. It soothed our soul and we felt that president Mahama was that incompetent but it appears that this regime is super incompetent compared to the Mahama regime.
“And I say this bluntly as it is because for the first time you work and you get money in your hands and you don’t know whether to keep the money under your bed like Cecelia Dapaah or you should go and dig somewhere in your bedroom because you are not trusting the banking system,” he indicated on TV3’s the KeyPoints Saturday, November 11, 2023.
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