Former Director of Communications for the 2024 flagbearer campaign of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has described the first 120 days of the John Mahama-led NDC administration as abysmal.
According to him, the NDC government has done nothing but complain about what they inherited, with no clear plan to move the country forward.
“The reality in the last 120 days is that we’ve been saddled with a group of people who have been disturbing our ears with lamentations and complaints. Almost all of them — it’s as if the government came into office without a plan, without a strategy,” he said on Accra-based Channel One TV on Wednesday, May 7.
He added that it is becoming obvious that the promises made by the NDC ahead of the 2024 elections were empty.
“It’s almost beginning to look as if all the things they were saying, which gave the Ghanaian people hope that they were an alternative with solutions to our challenges, were just metrics — and that they really didn’t have any concrete plan,” he said.
Miracles Aboagye also took a swipe at the CEO of COCOBOD, Randy Abbey, accusing him of going around the country lamenting about the institution’s state and failing to deliver on promises, especially to cocoa farmers.
“So you listen to the COCOBOD CEO, who is moving from one cocoa farm to another with this leather chair, and the farmers tell him, ‘You promised us that cocoa should be GH¢6,000 per bag and not GH¢3,000. Why haven’t you done it?’ And then he says, ‘Since we came, we realized there’s a lot of mess in COCOBOD, and the way things are, it will be difficult for us to increase prices,’” he said.
He further criticised Energy Minister John Jinapor, accusing him of contradicting his past statements and failing to publish a load-shedding timetable.
“I’ve spent the past week playing videos of the Energy Minister — what he said when he was Ranking Member, and what he’s saying now as Minister. Sometimes I feel very sad for him because it’s like he’s debating himself. He’s disagreeing with himself on things he once said.
“Today, he’s fighting those same things and saying they are not true. And you ask yourself, but who are you disagreeing with?” he asked.
Miracles emphasised that Ghana is in a difficult place because, in his view, the NDC “sneaked into power on the back of lies and lofty promises.”
