The governing New Patriotic Party has likened a future Mahama led administration to a bicycle without wheels that is bound for the ditch.
According to Minister for Inner Cities and Zongo Development Dr. Mustapha Hamid, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its flagbearer John Dramani Mahama cannot undertake life transforming policies that can improve lives, adding that Ghanaians will no longer ride on what he described as the former President’s bicycle without wheels.
Addressing a Press Conference at the Headquarters of the party, Dr. Hamid said the former president who is on a campaign to rescue the country cannot boast of doing so since the Mahama administration was compelled to run to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to rescue the economy.
The Zongo Minister opined that Mr. Mahama cannot be trusted to deliver on his promises, citing his administration’s inability to implement the one-time premium of the National Insurance Scheme among other initiatives.
“Inshallah, we should not be passengers on his bicycle which per his own conclusion is doomed to end in a ditch. Indeed, we got off his bicycle in 2016 when we got to the Jubilee House- junction. We are no longer interested in riding on that bicycle. We are on board, the Akufo- Addo train and it is bound to glory. It has restored the hope of thousands of young boys and girls. It has brought a smile back on the faces of farmers with the planting for food Programme. It has brought back the smile of Zongo people,” he said.
Dr. Mustapha continued “We remember how in September of 2016, the NDC had to recall the allocation of all MDAs in order to pay salaries. We remember how teachers who went to education offices to request for recommendation letters were asked to bring their own paper, their own A4 sheets on which those letters would be typed. The Ministry of Education did not have the wherewithal to buy an A4 sheet for district education offices”.
