Gabby, you are a Major Campaign Message for the NDC

Greetings Gabby Otchere-Darko,

When Nana Akufo-Addo was sworn in, he swore by the Bible that he would be fair and we believed him. He assured Ghanaians that he belonged to no one or party but I knew he belongs to you. The presidency and the country are being controlled by you. Yea, officially, you are not a member of this government. But you are more powerful than Nana Akufo-Addo.

I’m not surprised you putting out those propaganda-filled posts. You are the origin this government’s problems so will do everything possible to cover the shame and disgrace you’ve brought on the administration and also massage the disappointment and pain your supporters are enduring. There are so many issues that the country is facing as a result of your government’s bad policies, corruption and manipulations and we would like to know what your government has done so far or going to do than talking.

Kindly advise Mr President to stop giving sweet but deceitful speeches and blaming of his predecessor for his abysmal performance and start working. You will have to tell Ghanaians during elections what you did in the last four years. It is going to be four years and you have not even implemented fully one, just one, of your thousand promises. You keep talking and writing empty posts. Even if you talk or write those empty posts on your wall, you only talk or write, you only churn out lies and blame others for your self inflicted problems. You still talk about corruption overlooking your government’s track record the last three years. You’ve shattered the country’s record in corruption and you sit on your wall and discuss corruption pointing at others.

Gabby, your deeds and activities as the defacto prime minister is enough a message to kick out your clueless, corrupt and insensitive government.

Your latest post and your President’s outbursts against the critics who are expressing concerns over the unprecedented corruption and nepotism in your government and the fragile state of the economy is an attempt to cover up your nervousness by sheer hubris. This happens when a President, his government and economic policy makers become hostage to the punter-like instincts, relying solely on sentiments and cheap propaganda rather than on fundamentals and genuine and hard economic data. Instead of making inaccurate statistical comparison using cooked figures and methodologies, focus on the real figures which have been generated under your rule. What is the point in claiming to be among the fastest growing economies when investment rate in Ghana has fallen significantly, unemployment rate has increased, fuel prices has increased, economic condition of Ghanaians has worsened, businesses are collapsing. How can the head and apostles of an avowedly pro business government ignore such glaring distress signals vis-à-vis private investment activity?

Gabby, you think President Akufo-Addo’s GHC 62 million expenditure on foreign trips in nine months when millions of our youth are walking on our streets without job is not a campaign message?

You think the GHC 168 million expenses the presidency made within a period of nine months last years isn’t a good campaign message?

You think government spending of GHC 26,300.20 as donations to funeral ceremonies isn’t a good campaign message.

You think promising the people Dams and giving them third class dugouts isn’t a solid campaign message?

What about the cedi’s depreciation and high fuel price?

Are you aware your government promised our youth jobs? What about the promise to end the unemployed nurses problem. How many nurses have you employed? And how many are still jobless?

We were told that your firm was contracted by the finance ministry to review all agreements and contracts entered into by the ministry over the last 15 years. It was alleged that your firm received a whopping $20 million. That is why nepotism is the mother of corruption. And you think this unethical move isn’t a good campaign message?

The President has appointed over 60 family members into his administration. All the sensitive and juicy positions including the almighty finance ministry are being controlled and headed by cousins and other family members of the President- and you think Ghanaians will thank you for this open wickedness?

What about the Ameri deal? Your government set up a committee to investigate the $510 million Ameri contract, paid millions of tax payers money on trips abroad only to inflate the cost to $1.3 billion. You think Ghanaians will praise your government for this wicked deal?

The PDS deal and your conversations with Philip Ayesu is still fresh in our minds. And what about the companies some family members and close associates of the President hurriedly formed to take over the power sector? You think will not be good for the campaign platform?.What about the Bost scandals, the Oslo and Kelni GVG scandal, the National Lottery Authority and Maritime Authority scandals.

What about the insecurity in the country, the killings and maiming going on. Harassment of political opponents, businessmen, journalists and critics of your administration. You think Ghanaians are happy with this unfortunate development. And even in your own party, you think your members are happy with your all conquering actions and activities in the party.

On the economic front, twisting data, lies, deceit and baseless praises are what we witnessing under your administration. Survey reports by credible institutions reveal that unemployment has increased. For a government which came to power on the back of a promise to create massive jobs, that is a lot of eggs on your face. Stop the data meddling and fix the dying economy. Instead of focusing on fulfilling your promises, your fake news machinery make tall claims about governance. Suppression of inconvenient data is causing embarrassment for the whole country and making the environment unattractive to investors. Your government is obsessed with the little success recorded as a result of investments made in the oil and gas sector by the Mahama administration but unwilling to definitively tackle the stress in the financial sector needed to spur investment.

You vehemently condemned the Mahama administration for borrowing to implement projects. You deliberately ignored the assets created from the amount borrowed and through well packaged propaganda, incited Ghanaians against the Mahama administration. Can you tell Ghanaians the amount borrowed by your government the last three years vis-à-vis projects executed by your government? And you think Ghanaians will not be interested in these performance assessment? The Mahama administration introduced the debt management strategy to control government borrowing and stop crowding out of the private sector. His focus was on business and industry and their success.

The Mahama administration fully implemented the single spine salary scheme in 2012 and 70 percent of our revenue paid wages of about 600,000 public sector workers. His government brought it down to about 50 percent through efficient measures. It solved the decades old power crisis and today, Ghana under your government is a net exporter of electricity. These are the messages we going to tell Ghanaians and ask them to do their own comparison and assessment.

Nana Akufo-Addo, accused the Mahama led administration of embarking on reckless borrowing, contracting a total of $37 billion within a space of seven years. We shall tell Ghanaians how much you’ve borrowed your three years and juxtapose that with projects implemented by your government.

Gabby, candidate Akufo-Addo told Ghanaians that the Cedi has become a joke on the currency market, which destroyed the confidence of our traders. And concluded that our nation was in crisis. What is the state of the cedi under your watch? Go out and talk to our traders. Ask them to give you true performance assessment of the two administration with regard to management of the cedi and would understand why people describe your government as the most useless government in the history of Ghana.

Gabby, you think the young men and women who lost their jobs as a result of that bogus clean up exercise in the banking sector still have confidence in your government and party? And you think business owners whose businesses have collapsed as a result of your bad policies and vindictive actions will give you their votes. You’ve denied communities the opportunity of having community day secondary schools for no tangible reasons and you think they will retain you to keep their uncompleted schools in the bushes?

You have badly squandered your mandate. Ghana has not experienced anything like this since 1957. Your government has done absolutely nothing its three years.