Election 2020: Mahama is my target, not Jane – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo has said that the “target” for his campaign in the run-up to the 2020 elections is the former President and flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama and not his running mate, because “she’s not on the ticket and when people go to vote, they won’t see her picture on the ballot paper”.

He says the running mate of the NDC candidate, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has a lot of downsides that could be highlighted, including the cancelation of the Teacher Trainee Allowances under her tenure as Education Minister, but there is much more that could be said about the main contender, John Mahama, though he is trying to create a new image of himself as if he were a new person.

Speaking in an interview on Takoradi-based Skyy Power FM as part of his two-day tour of the Western region monitored by MyNewsGh.com on Wednesday morning, he said there is enormous record against the former President from his long service in government in various capacities including being the Vice President and President in a period of 8 years.

“Our target is him; by target I mean our focus is him and his record, yea. I think there’s an effort on his part, at least from what I can see to sort of recreate himself as some new figure in Ghanaian politics, but he has a big record. He’s been vice president for three and half years and president for five and a half years. We have seen his handiwork so we would want to see if what he shall come to say would be at par with his records or something that we haven’t seen before”, he said.

He continued by saying, “I have heard him say he will create abundant jobs when he comes back to power but we didn’t see any jobs in his tenure; you remember that the Unemployed Graduates Association grew up in his time so if he had any formula to create jobs, how could that association have sprung up; there was an embargo on recruitment into the public sector; all these things are in his period”.

He quizzed what the former president did to employ the “thousands and thousands” of nurses and teachers who had graduated years ago and were “sitting at home” in his tenure.

Source:MyNewsGh.com