Why Listen To Mahama When The IMF Boss Has Spoken- Alexander Martey To Ghanaians

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A Presidential staffer, Alexander Martey, has questioned why Ghanaians will even want to listen to former President John Dramani Mahama and his denigration of the government, when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Boss had justified the need for Ghana to seek for a bailout from the IMF.

According to him, the more reason John Mahama has been criticizing the government is because he wants to become a President again, so that all that he wasn’t able to take in his possession, he can do it.

Speaking on Movement In The Morning Show on Wontumi Radio/Movement TV on September 8, 2022,  he said that “John Mahama knows very well that the country is in difficult times due to the global crisis but has decided to criticize and blame the government simply because he would want to become a President again”.
“Do you remember when he was leaving power in December 2016, he requested for the Vice President’s residence. An edifice which had been occupied by all VEEP’s since the 4th republic- and because he never had it, he still wants to become the President, in order to take back all that he couldn’t take during his tenure. He’s not returning for the wellbeing and development of the country and citizenry but for his parochial interest”, he told Kwaku Dawuro.

Adding that “between Mahama and the IMF Boss, whom should we take as credible? Every individual who has studied economics knows the economic scale- therefore if Mahama knows economics very well, he wouldn’t have been making certain utterances. I see it as a mischief. Moreover, apart from the effect of the global crisis, there’s nothing the NDC and their de facto flagbearer could campaign with”.

This comes after John Dramani on Tuesday had an engagement with the US Ambassador to Ghana and he explained to her that the country’s economic woes have been compounded by the missteps of the government, poor economic decisions, the collapse of indigenous banks and financial institutions instead of saving them; corruption, and the misappropriation of COVID-19 funds, which were shared to party officials.