Sensible and rational Ghanaians are largely in agreement on this point, and these are not matters of partisan import, but matters of fact- John Dramani Mahama is a sh*tty President.
There are those entrenched in their party positions either way, who would enter this argument not based on facts, but on prior sentiment. But you don’t need a partisan position to make this argument, because the facts would support the premise.
There is the long running load shedding, the worst in our history, and the fundamental mismanagement of its potential solutions. There is the crippling effect that has had on the economy, the lost jobs, the driving of costs upward as companies spend more on gasoline to stay in business- and there is even the unfortunate loss of life. There is the depreciation of our currency on a scale never before seen, and its attendant economic impact.
That is before mentioning astronomical debt, and corruption on a  scale never seen before . These are incontrovertible facts of life which just passes over the heads of every one in government. It’s like they are living in an alternate universe where everything is rosy.
The President and his ministers held a retreat at Ho in the Volta Region. The purpose presumably was to take stock, blow off some steam, and come revitalised for the challenges of an election year. As self reflection is not a trait this President possesses, the picture he painted was of a Ghana which is certainly not the one we’re living in.
Speaking to his minister, the President made these remarks…
“Nkrumah had done so phenomenally when it comes to infrastructure. He had just finished the Akosombo Dam. It was months after he had switched on Akosombo and the same opposition at the time said he had run Ghana into debt and that he had borrowed so much. Exactly the same accusations we are facing now …”
There, our current President having the gall to compare himself to Osagyefo. Nkrumah didn’t balloon our debt to GDP ratio near HIPC levels, best I recall, despite building enormously all over the country- and he had a long term vision this guy can only think of in his dreams.
Its these kinds of delusions of grandeur, coupled with a lack of any acknowledgements, even for the problems plaguing us, that makes President Mahama so ill-suited to digging us out from this hole we’re in.
As the saying goes, if you do not even recognise you have a problem, how do you fix it?

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