John Mahama
We have not forgotten the days of the wobbling governance template under the previous political administration. It was a period occasioned by the painful stress of uncertainties and the loss of confidence in the political establishment headed by the then President John Mahama.
The foregone factors led to the inarguable ouster of the former President and his government by the people of this country.
The negative traits which denied him the opportunity to steer the ship of state properly and bereft of incidents are etched in his DNA. Like the spots on the leopard or zebra, they cannot be removed.
With indecision being part of his attributes as he himself alluded to in his book, ‘My First Coup d’etat’, he is not a person to whom we can assign the controls of the ship of state once more. Vacillation on the part of a President has many consequences, all of which do not inure to the interest of the nation.
The rocks in whose direction former President John Mahama steered the ship of state to are still staring at the good people of Ghana.
We cannot risk sending this beautiful country back to the abyss of helplessness as we did previously.
We have come a long way in our national resolve to reverse all the negative things which created among others the word ‘dumsor’, to wit, the unreliability of electric power and the attendant telling consequences of that phenomenon.
These bad governance traits are still fresh in our memories, not yet forgotten.
Let us remember the collapsed businesses and how the phenomenon impacted negatively on individuals, families and the economy as a whole.
We have not forgotten the helplessness exhibited by former President John Mahama to whom the people of Ghana assigned the task of managing our affairs following his request to be obliged that opportunity.
We cannot return to a government which insisted on stopping allowances to nursing and teacher trainees and actually doing so.
We cannot forget a government which responded rudely to genuine requests for chalks for teachers to undertake their critical assignments.
We cannot return to a government whose head fumbled when the question as to whether he had ever taken bribe or not was hurled at him by a BBC correspondent. Taking bribe as a President or whatever capacity is an integrity blemish nonetheless.
We should keep this country in the safe and steady hands of a man we have known for long.
When the ongoing pandemic struck, the world was shaken to its roots, leaving even the developed and wealthy countries panting for breath. A confident personality at the helm working with science and God stood us apart from others.
President Akufo-Addo’s performance at managing the pandemic earned him and the country international deference.
Even as his political opponents, who would have rather things did not go the way they did, screamed out their alternative responses to the pandemic, some of them toxic, he kept his cool, ignoring the so-called Covid-19 Committee they set up. The outcome has been a Ghana with relatively little Covid-19 consequences.
This is the President into whose hands we should entrust the country for the next four years.