Correspondence from Mumuni Yunus, Northern Region:
Former President John Mahama has asked President Akufo-Addo when he will resign following the depreciation of the Ghana Cedi against the US dollar.
The NDC Flagbearer recalled when then Candidate Nana Akufo-Addo said if he were the late President, John Evans Atta Mp, he would resign because the cedi was trading at Gh¢2 to a dollar.
Addressing a rally at Lugni in the Wulensi constituency of the Northern region on Tuesday, Mr Mahama asked the President if he would resign now that the Ghanaian Cedi is trading at nearly qGh¢17 to a dollar.
“He’s on video and he said that Kufour’s time, Gh¢1 [equals] one dollar, Mahama and Mills time two cedis, one dollar and that if he were Mills and Mahama he would resign. I’m asking him, today one dollar, 17 cedis, would he resign?” he quizzed.
The NDC Flagbearer asked the President to and “tell the people of Ghana when he’s going to resign”.
Mr Mahama appealed to the Independent Parliamentary Candidate for the area, Stanley who broke away from the party to put his ambitions aside and rejoin the NDC.
He said that breaking away was only going to affect his political career because the NDC was going to win massively in the Parliamentary and presidential elections.
The international community is asking what happened to Ghana’s model of democracy – Mahama
Speaking at Bimbilla in the Nanumba North Municipality, former President Mahama opined that members of the international community have been asking questions about Ghana’s ‘deteriorating’ democracy.
“Anywhere I go, the question people outside in the world ask me is ‘Ghana, what happened to you?’” he claimed.
Mr Mahama said Ghana was not only a model of democracy but also, a model of economic management but was quick to note that the country’s democracy and economy were in shambles.
He said “Everybody looked up to Ghana as the model of democracy, today, we’re a quack model of democracy. Our judiciary is not independent, all our state institutions have been destroyed. People looked up to Ghana as a country that was a model of economic management, today our economy is in shambles.”
Mr Mahama was later at Ngani in the Yendi constituency, Tuesday evening where he addressed a mammoth rally.
