{"id":1090303,"date":"2022-05-17T14:11:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/17\/ghanaians-are-learning-from-their-mistake-after-voting-me-out-says-ex-prez-mahama-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T14:11:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:11:37","slug":"ghanaians-are-learning-from-their-mistake-after-voting-me-out-says-ex-prez-mahama-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/17\/ghanaians-are-learning-from-their-mistake-after-voting-me-out-says-ex-prez-mahama-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians Are Learning From Their Mistake After Voting Me Out &#8211; Says Ex Prez Mahama | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The former president\u00a0John Mahama\u00a0has said that Ghanaians are now learning from their mistake after voting him out in the\u00a02016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <em>Samson Kasumba on Uganda-based\u00a0NBS Television<\/em>, Mahama said\u00a0President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u00a0swayed Ghanaians with his \u201csweet talk\u201d prior to the 2016 elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen someone new comes along and sways the people with sweet talk, and you are voted out, you let them learn. And\u00a0Ghanaians\u00a0today are learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you ask Ghanaians today to assess my four years as President, they will tell you there was a lot of transformation in the country, especially in the field of infrastructure,\u201d Mahama said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been around six years so far. The country is in crisis. We are running into debt. The government has borrowed in excess of GHC270 billion, and there is nothing to show for it,\u201d the former president said.<\/p>\n<p>Touching on last year\u2019s (20 December 2021) scuffle in Parliament, Mahama questioned the delay in investigating who ordered the soldiers into Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident in the Ghanaian Parliament on 7 January 2021, was unprecedented, and up to now, there has been no investigation into who gave the order for the military to come in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: asaaseradio.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. 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In an interview with Samson Kasumba on Uganda-based\u00a0NBS Television, Mahama said\u00a0President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u00a0swayed Ghanaians with his \u201csweet talk\u201d prior to the 2016 elections.\u00a0 \u201cWhen someone new comes along and sways the people with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1088541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[834,1039,1125,1409,1753,6583,9977],"class_list":["post-1090303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-ghanaians","tag-learning","tag-mahama","tag-mistake","tag-politics","tag-prez","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}