The Member of Parliament for Ketu North, Edem Agbana, has defended President John Dramani Mahama’s performance in his first 120 days in office, describing it as an “over-delivery” on the social contract he committed to during the campaign.
According to the MP, not only did the President meet the key benchmarks of the social contract, but he also implemented additional policies and programmes that were not part of the original pledge.
Speaking on The Big Issues on Channel One TV on Saturday, May 10, 2025, Agbana stated that even members of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) were initially keen on ensuring that the President fulfilled his pledges within the stated timeframe to build public trust.
“Even for us as a party, we were interested in ensuring that the 120-day social contract was fulfilled to earn the trust of the Ghanaian people.
“Now that the timeline has elapsed, which was on Wednesday, and can confidently say that we are very impressed with the performance and the government. To some of us, President Mahama has over-delivered. So, if you ask me to score him for the 120-day social contract, I will tell you that he earned more than 100% because several things were not promised, but he delivered them. and those that were promised in the contract, I can tell you that he over-delivered,” he stated.
Agbana’s comments came in response to sharp criticism from the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), which held a press conference on Thursday, May 8, 2025, to challenge the Mahama administration’s 120-day performance report.
At the event, NPP leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, accused President Mahama of abandoning the bold reformist agenda he had championed during his campaign, stating that the administration had instead embraced a model of governance rooted in recycled failures.
“This is not just a speech; it is a call to remembrance and resistance,” Afenyo-Markin asserted. “It is a forensic audit of the presidency that campaigned with the urgency of a reformer but now governs with the indifference of a ruler long exhausted by ideas.”
The Effutu MP, further expressed concern that the early promise of the administration had already begun to falter, claiming that President Mahama’s leadership is entering what he called its “lame duck days.”
“Now the 120 days are over, the promises have collapsed, the excuses have run dry, the reckoning must begin,” he said.
“Let it be said plainly to every Ghanaian — you were not given a reset; you were sold a recycled failure.”
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