Minister in charge of Zongo and Inner-Cities Development, Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has said former President John Dramani Mahama is struck by the achievements of the Nana Addo administration, a reason he mistook the less then four years old government for that of eight.
In his assertion, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party have done so much within a short period, which also accounts for the difficulty in properly communicating the success story of government.
Dr. Hamid who was addressing Executives and Party members at the inauguration of the Upper East Regional campaign Team of the NPP said “Often time people accuse us of the New Patriotic Party of being people who are not good at communicating our achievements. Well, sometimes I agree but sometimes I disagree. The reason I disagree is that we have too many achievements and we have done so much within a short period of time. In that case you are not going to be able to communicate all of it. So the reason people say we are not communicating is because our achievements are many”.
It will be recalled the National Democratic Congress flagbearer recently committed an error by stating in an interview in Bole that the Nana Addo led New Patriotic Party government had spent eight years in office.
This blunder according to Mustapha Hamid is because the former President is shocked at what government has done within a period of less than four years.
“President Mahama knows and in fact in candidate Mahama’s thinking, what we have achieved in 3 years looks to him like 8 years. He cannot believe that all we have achieved, we did that in only 3 and half years. He can’t believe it. That is why he went to Bole and said it has been 8 years of this and 8 years of that,” he stressed.
He maintained that the former President’s unfactual claims was not a slip of tongue because he repeated it a number of times.
The former Information Minister further forcefully argued that all social intervention initiatives enjoyed by the Ghanaian people were implemented by a New Patriotic Party government.
