How Mahama used Akufo-Addo, Kennedy Agyapong’s words to ‘lash’ Bawumia at NDC’s campaign launch

To highlight the severity of the Ghanaian situation and the need for him as the Messiah to address the current economic mess, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress, John Dramani Mahama, referenced previous statements by two high-ranking officials of the governing New Patriotic Party.

In his speech at the launch of the NDC’s campaign on Saturday, July 27, 2024, John Mahama cited comments by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Kennedy Agyapong, the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, to highlight the situation the country finds itself in and why Ghanaians should hand him the responsibility of steering the country out of the economic quagmire come December 7, 2024.

In the case of Kennedy Agyapong, Mahama referenced a viral quote from his interview with KSM to explain why Ghanaians cannot trust the NPP flagbearer to lead the country out of its current predicament.

“A member of the New Patriotic Party, a friend and a former colleague MP, said, ‘It’s not Ghana that needs change, it’s change that needs Ghana.’ And that is Honourable Kennedy Agyapong.

“Change needs Ghana because, in the last Afrobarometer survey, more than 80% of Ghanaians said that our country was going in the wrong direction. And if you are going in the wrong direction, you change your course, and that is why on December 7, Ghana must change course,” he said.

John Mahama mentioned President Akufo-Addo’s campaign message in the lead-up to the 2016 elections to advance his argument that Ghanaians had already committed a blunder by electing President Akufo-Addo and must not do the same with Bawumia, who is campaigning on the same ‘try me’ message.

Mahama warned that the country has been set back in the last eight years and that Ghanaians, particularly the youth, cannot afford to waste another four years.

He believes that the next four years are crucial for the country and that he has the skill set and knowledge to reset the country and put it on the right path.

“Several years ago, somebody came and said ‘Try me,’ and the result is what we are seeing today. Today, another person has come, and he is also saying the same thing the one who brought us to this ditch was saying eight years ago. He says if after four years if I don’t do well, change me. The youth of this country don’t have four years to waste,” he said.