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John Mahama\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Ghanaians are being warned to watch out for election campaign scams and rhetoric with current economic challenges imposed on the country by the COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n Director of Communications of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buaben Asamoa, said ex-President John Dramani Mahama is looking to defraud Ghanaian voters by posing as a credible alternative leader, calling on them to dismiss his \u201cfatuous claims\u201d about the Electronic Transfer Levy, popularly known as E-Levy.<\/p>\n \u201cPlease look at the claim to repeal E-Levy. It\u2019s a scam. Just like one time premium and the repeal of talk tax. In any event, can John Mahama explain the difference in his 17.5% tax on financial transactions and his manifesto pledge to impose a uniform tax on all electronic transactions? Are these measures E-Levy in disguise, and does he stand by them?\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n According to him, it is possible that Mr. Mahama\u2019s recent address is motivated by self-preservation towards his continued leadership of the NDC into 2024, given that both insiders and external observers are writing him off.<\/p>\n Crossroad Response<\/strong><\/p>\n Addressing a news conference at the party\u2019s headquarters in Accra yesterday, the NPP Communications Director said \u201cit is clear that in terms of deciding direction at the crossroads, the NDC cannot be trusted to move you towards prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey have no policies creating new social interventions to cushion Ghanaians. Under John Mahama\u2019s leadership, Ghana will slip backwards into chaotic incompetence. Just like his autobiography tells all, he cannot take decisions,\u201d Mr. Asamoa stated.<\/p>\n He told the media that ex-President Mahama indicates in his book that \u201che will ride this country like a bicycle, out of control and dangerously downhill, merely hopeful of survival.\u201d<\/p>\n For him, that can be avoided with a vote in 2024 to continue to consolidate good governance and socially sensitive policies under the NPP, noting that the records available in the public space indicates that while the NPP uses eight years to build the nation, the NDC uses another eight years to destroy it.<\/p>\n \u201cRather than mere dismissal of John Mahama\u2019s fatuous claims and a trumpeting of NPP successes, perhaps it\u2019s time discerning civil society asserted themselves to dispassionately and objectively assess the records.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe 2024 [general] election is more or less a tie breaker to continue Ghana on \u2018a path of prosperity and dignity, but with hard work and sacrifice,\u2019 under a renewed and fresh ideas NPP leadership or to go back \u2018down an easy path of chaos and destruction\u2019 with incompetent and nonchalant leadership under former President and twice failed NDC candidate Mahama,\u201d he posited.<\/p>\n Mr. Asamoa said between now and election 2024, the NPP recognises and accepts that surveys, polls and commentaries will escalate, \u201cbut because it is a crossroads election, objectivity must be our watchword as we assess what is best for us in the context of national history generally and in the 4th Republic in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOn that record, it is clear the NPP does better at governance by far than the NDC. As their Chairman states, they will be running a government of \u2018no contribution, no chop\u2019 in the event we mistakenly choose them to lead,\u201d the NPP Communications Director submitted.<\/p>\n He said the NPP believes that breaking the eight-year election cycle is a watershed decision in Ghana\u2019s development process, adding that it is about time Ghanaians chose decisively which party will lead them into \u201ca future of hope and prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n Painful Ritual<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Asamoa stated that the eight-year rotation of political party governance would remain \u201ca painful and meaningless ritual if the NPP continues to build every eight years and the NDC comes in to pull down in the subsequent eight years.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt is in this context that former President John Dramani Mahama seeks to characterise Ghana as being at a crossroad,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n \u201cWe must reflect deeply. For if we do, we will accept, as the records show, that significant change to our political institutions and conduct, economic structure and management and positive social impact, has mostly happened under the NPP\u2019s watch.<\/p>\n \u201cMany very significant national reverses occurred under the six years of John Mahama\u2019s presidency. He has since been rejected twice in elections. It\u2019s possible his recent address is motivated by self-preservation towards his continued leadership of the NDC into 2024, given that both insiders and external observers are writing him off,\u201d he stressed. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He recounted the numerous achievements of the NPP governments, intimating, \u201cin sum, NPP decriminalised speech, supported infrastructure and training with the International Press Centre and support funds, and improved spectrum allocation and regulatory oversight. Free speech will continue its healthy climb under successive NPP administrations.\u201d<\/p>\n BY Ernest Kofi Adu<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Mahama\u00a0 Ghanaians are being warned to watch out for election campaign scams and rhetoric with current economic challenges imposed on the country by the COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war. 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