A former Board Chairman of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), Paul Adom-Otchere, has said that the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government is now facing the harsh realities of governance after assuming power.
According to him, the party, while in opposition, made several promises about what it could do, but is now realising that to govern a country is not as easy as they made it seem when they were out of power.
He also referenced the matter of how some individuals accused Mavis Hawa Koomson of orchestrating a violent attack on her successor, Phyllis Okunor, the Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East and how the Minister of the Interior’s briefings on the 2020 and 2024 election violence revealed that the sitting MP (Okunor) denied any knowledge of the violence that marred her 2024 election, an incident that left one person dead.
Appearing on JoyNews on Thursday, November 6, 2025, Adom-Otchere said, “The government has itself realised that some of the things that they said in opposition that were doable are not as simple as that. The campaign of 2024 was feisty, and again, the interior minister’s report yesterday contradicts what a lot of people said during the campaign about Hawa Koomson.
“So, I’m sure the government itself is finding out. A lot of them have been in government before, but they are finding out that running the government is not as simple as running a campaign in terms of what you say.”
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