Following the opposition persistent painting of a gloomy future for Ghana and classification of the current administration as the worse thing ever to have happened to the country, President John Dramani Mahama, beginning next week, will start a nationwide tour dubbed "Tour of Hope".
The "Tour of Hope" is part of the President Mahama’s evidence-based showcasing of his government’s achievement. Sources at the seat of government say the tour will see the President spending three days in each of the ten regions of Ghana inspecting and commissioning some vital infrastructural projects.
The tour, our sources noted, will also afford the president the opportunity to interact with as many Ghanaians as possible. “His Excellency will cease the opportunity to visit markets, lorry parks, churches and mosques among others to propagate God’s favors on the nation and the government’s accomplishments,” the source added.
Among the high point on the President’s nationwide move-around will be the inauguration of 10 additional Community Day Senior High Schools which the President announced this week are ready and awaiting commissioning.
“Part of the reasons for this tour is for the President to touch base with NDC regional and constituency executives to discuss wide range of issues,” another source noted.
Like previous tours by the president, The aL-hAJJ has been reliably informed that, Mr John Mahama will take advantage of his three-day working visit to each of the regions to advance his “evidence-based-achievements” to dispel the notion, especially by the opposition New Patriotic Party that, his administration has woefully failed the people.
“President Mahama has been consistent in telling Ghanaians that while he may not have transformed the nation into paradise, some remarkable strides have been made under his tenure and, that is what he would be showcasing to the people…
“God has been kind to us as a nation and we ought to be grateful for that…considering the challenges that we faced as a country and having been able to surmount some of them which have resulted in the success story of this administration, the best we can do is to give thanks to God. The hope tour is not just to showcase the president’s achievements but also to confer with the various religious sects and traditional authorities across the country”.
President Mahama in a recent response to Nana Akufo-Addo’s description of his evidence-based display of his achievements as “an embarrassing display” said, while it was the 2016 NPP flag bearer’s democratic right to criticize government policies; it was wrong for him to minimize the achievements of government in the last three years.
“The most important fact about the transformative stories I shared last week, the most fundamental truth about them is that they are not my achievements, they are our achievements! They are Ghana’s achievements!” the President wrote in a Facebook post.
Nana Akufo-Addo and his men have in recent times described the Mahama government as a failure and underserving of a second term after the November 7 polls. Ironically, the opposition party has shifted from tagging government as having nothing to show as achievement to, inflating the cost of projects it has embarked on.
But a senior staff at the Flag Staff House told The aL-hAJJ “when the president begins the hope tour, we shall see if Nana Akufo-Addo and his NPP will have anything to campaign on. They started that we have achieve nothing…when the president shocked them with our achievements during the state of nation address, they have now shifted the goal post that we have bloated project figures.”
The obviously excited government official said “the NPP ‘aren’t’ seen nothing yet. The hope tour will expose all their lies…we will touch base with the various communities and the people themselves will tell Ghanaians how these projects are impacting on their lives. Nana Addo and the NPP should continue to live in their world of illusion.”
