Ghanaians should ignore Mahama and his sweet promises - Moshake

A former executive of the Tema East constituency branch of the opposition National Democratic Congress, has described "sweet" the bouquet of wonderful promises that former president John Mahama, the 2024 presidential candidate of the NDC, is selling to Ghanaians.

In a commentary on the promises, Mr. Stephen Ashitey Adjei, who is popularly known as Moshake, said “they are grandiloquent and simply unattainable in the four years that Mahama will be president if Ghanaians elect him as such.

In fact, Mahama and his sweet promises should be ignored by Ghanaians because he cannot be trusted”.

"Every commonsensical metric shows that even in eight years, the 24-hour economy Mr. John Mahama is talking about will not take off.

In countries where this economic model is running in some form, it took at least twenty years to plan," Moshake stated."

Therefore, the promise by Mr. John Mahama that he will do it in four years is by any stretch of the imagination, nothing but one of the many Trojan horse promises that he has been going around trying to hoodwink Ghanaians with."

The 24-hour economy is the flagship promise of Mr. John Mahama but has since he made it, generated nothing but controversy with some saying it is fanciful because it is running in some way or form already in Ghana while others have said that the country has not built sufficient infrastructure for the model.

Moshake is of the second school of thought that sufficient infrastructure has not been built for the model.

Meanwhile, the former Tema East NDC executive has also pointed out that Mr. John Mahama's promise to cancel the double track system is a dangerous promise that shows Mr. Mahama will embark on a chaotic political misadventure if he is elected."

The double track system became necessary because free SHS opened the doors wide for many children who would otherwise not benefit from education. Free SHS is still attracting children into school, and even though the double track is not ideal, it will take some time to build adequate schools to off-load pressure enough for a single-track model to operate."

"And so anybody who promises to cancel double track in just four years is a dangerous person who must not be allowed anywhere in our presidency because essentially, what that person is promising is chaos in our education."

Similarly, Moshake warned that the promise to overhaul the scholarship Secretariat in four years "is a dangerous outlook that must not be allowed for experimentation by electing John Mahama as president."

Meanwhile, Moshake has pointed out that John Mahama cannot be trusted to fulfil all these promises and the many others that he has made because his track record speaks differently.

"It is not as if we have not seen governance under John Mahama before; we have! All one needs to ask him or herself is, in the first four years of John Mahama, what developmental footprints did he leave?”

“Former President John Mahama is a devious character and this explains why Ghanaians prefer hardworking President Akufo-Addo and brilliant Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to a dead goat that does not solve problems,” Moshake wrote.