Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Isaac AdongoChairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Isaac Adongo, has criticised the New Patriotic Party (NPP) over its ongoing thank-you tour following the 2024 general elections.
According to him, the party should rather be on an apology tour to admit its wrongs, apologise for economic mismanagement, and confess to deceiving Ghanaians.
“This should be an apology tour—a deception tour. They need to tell the people, ‘We are sorry. We lied to you. We apologise for hurting you and mismanaging the economy. But when we come back, we would have learnt our lessons,’” the Bolgatanga Central MP said on GHOne TV on Tuesday, May 6.
He argued that the NPP presided over an ailing economy that inflicted hardship on Ghanaians but still believed it could lie its way into retaining power.
“They believed the people of Ghana did not have the capacity to comprehend what was happening,” he added.
Meanwhile, former Vice President and 2024 NPP flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has admitted that the party lost the elections due to economic hardship, the e-levy, the domestic debt exchange programme (DDEP), and what he described as “arrogance of power.”
But Mr Adongo says such admissions should have come earlier.
“He cannot say he only got to know in opposition. They knew this all along—even when we told the people of Ghana, they fought us because they blamed external factors for the crisis,” he said.
The NPP, led by Dr. Bawumia and its national executives, began its post-election thank-you tour on Saturday, April 26, to engage with party members and reconnect with its grassroots base.
The tour is expected to end on June 4 in the Central Region.
