"History under Akufo-Addo has demonstrated that the NPP lacks competence in governance." Gyampo

Professor Ransford Gyampo of the University of Ghana has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) do not know how to govern, following the performance of former President Akufo-Addo.

He claims that Akufo-Addo's governance indices are so poor that the stereotype of the NPP as the party that knows how to rule but is incapable of gaining political power has been disproved.

Prof. Gyampo described the indices of good governance on the KeyPoints on TV3 Saturday, January 11, 2025, and claimed that during his term, Akufo-Addo displayed the worst kind of "winner takes all" politics.

He explained that the aftermath of Kufuor’s administration which birthed the cliche that the NPP as a party was an expert in governance and not how to win elections whilst the NDC knew how to win elections but not how to govern, has been reversed because of how Akufo-Addo governed.

Prof. Gyampo stated, "The history of governance under Mr. Akufo-Addo has demonstrated that the NPP is incompetent when it comes to governance." The "winner takes all politics" is what he claims Akufo-Addo mastered as president, referring to the practice of state capture and partisan monopolization of power, authority, resources, and everything surrounding power by the President and his cronies to the exclusion and marginalization of all other Ghanaians.

According to Gyampo, Akufo-Addo only appointed Edward Nasigri Mahama as Ambassador at Large in order to "silence him and kill his political career." "Observe the corruption, all the signs, and the fact that he could order chiefs to rise and greet him."

Therefore, when we discuss governance—that is, managing the state's affairs, good governance, and the efficient and effective use of limited state resources to produce developmental results that are visibly evident in people's lives—did he achieve that? he asked.

Akufo-Addo became an adept in "presidential gaslighting, telling people that things are well when things are not well," the Political Science instructor continued. He scolded the former president for claiming to have built Agenda 111 hospitals when, in fact, the buildings are not located in the city.

He also brought up the One District One Factory program, which the previous administration said had been implemented but had never been implemented. He added that people continued to look for work but were unsuccessful, and that the unemployment rate continued to rise during his administration.

“So, in terms of governance, the NPP don’t know how to govern at all. And I’m saying this because the history of governance under Akufo-Addo has shown,” he stated.