The president of the Republic of Ghana, His excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo has said that political campaigns are mostly full of lies and ignorant promises. The president believed to have said this during an interview. This statement came with shock as he relate to campaign promises of the major opposition NDC.
The president who was the then flag-bearer of his political party "NPP" made several promises whiles in opposition which many of them are still hidden in his thoughts, he had promised to build 350 new senior high schools from scratch which one is not even built, he also promised to build one district one factory within all the district assemblies in Ghana to subsidize the unemployment situation in the country, but not one is built out of the over 250 district assemblies, the president when in opposition promised $1million for each constituency in the country yearly and this has also fallen apart and other more promises that seems to have left his memory.
In this interview he said, some of his promises were made due to the circumstances Ghanaians went through under the Ex-President Mahama led administration. He said, no government is capable of fulfilling every promise but the one which he mostly campaigned about during the 2008, 2012 and 2016 elections respectively is the free SHS which is currently ongoing. The free shs which is facing unprecedented infrastructure challenge is his pride and he promised that very soon he will start constructing more classrooms and dormitories to resolve that unbearable situation.
The president on a platform in one of his campaign tour during the 2016 elections asserted that the then NDC in government are saying that when he President Akuffo Addo assumes governance he was going to ban galamsey (illegal small scale mining), but he consistently counter oppose that claim, when he took over from the earth-wile government within the period of 100 days he did just as the then government claimed over his stand on galamsey, he banned them from mining.
So the question is, was the president playing on the mind of Ghanaians or was he saying anything to help him accomplish his childhood dreams?
The president said he will not preside over tax prone country but would rather use the resources in the country to build and improve the lives of the people in the country, but his actions are now far different from what he ever said during the 2016 campaign tour.
This is a big lesson Africa must learn from Ghana, opposition will do anything to come to power, and the populars must be conscious about it.
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