Mahama has performed abysmally; must be contested - Fmr MP

Former NDC Member of Parliament for Lower Manya Krobo Constituency, Hon. Michael Teye Nyaunu, is of the opinion that President John Dramani Mahama has really underperformed hence it will not be in the interest of the ruling party if he is allowed to run unopposed in the party’s coming presidential primaries.

Teye-Nyaunu believes the National Democratic Congress stands the risk of losing power in the next general elections considering the abysmal performance put up by President Mahama’s administration, and further opined that democracy within the ruling party will be deepened if someone puts himself up to contest the President for the Flagbearership position.

“There will be absolutely nothing wrong for anybody to contest the sitting President; those who want to contest the sitting President should lace up their boots…and get onto the tracks to race the President in the primaries,” he urged on Okay Fm’s Ade Akye Abia Show.

Highlighting the mistakes in Mahama’s administration, Hon. Michael Teye Nyaunu, popularly called MTN, bemoaned the inexperienced and immature Ministers working for the NDC government as the major cause of the party’s failure to deliver on its promises to Ghanaians.

Inasmuch as Hon. Nyaunu supports the influx of young Minister in governance, he has argued against giving them front-role leadership as those who have been in government for long periods are without positions in Mahama’s administration.

He stressed that there is no effective succession plan in the leadership of President Mahama to make the experienced and matured people take the front role in the ministerial positions and put the younger ones to learn from the experienced.

“I can’t understand how we have the experienced people in NDC that the country knows, and then we put them aside and bring in the inexperienced, all in the name of introducing the youth in government and they are not able to deliver…when people are going through crisis, then these young ministers will say it is not crisis but challenges; the bottom line is that people have been impoverished.

"Tell me, how a coach could bring his star players on the bench, waiting that he could be scored before he brings in the star players; you think the other team would be sleeping? I think the NDC has got a lot of work to do in order to retain power because it is getting on the wall plainly that NDC would have to sit in opposition and there is a possibility that NDC will lose….once the team of the President is not performing then invariably the President is not performing as well,” he asserted.