Prez. Mahama should not lie tomorrow in State of Nation Address – Political Parties

download (4)Some political parties in the country have challenged President John Mahama to be truthful about the current state of affairs when he gives his State of the Nation Address on Tuesday.

They are asking him to admit that Ghana is facing serious economic crisis.

According to officials of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) and the National Democratic Party (NDP), they are expecting  the President to tell Ghanaians how his administration is practically handling the issues affecting the nation.

The address which was originally scheduled for last week Thursday was postponed to Tuesday, February 25 due to unforeseen circumstances.

In an interview with Citi News, the General Secretary of the PPP, Kofi Asamoah-Siaw outlined the party’s expectation of the President.

They requested a “complete admission of the crisis that we are facing this country so the President must admit because all of us know about the difficulties with energy, electricity, water, unemployment, inflation and so on and so forth.”

Mr. Asamoah-Siaw also asked the President to enlighten Ghanaians on the measures his government has taken to address the challenges.

The General Secretary of the CPP, Ivor Greenstreet on his part expressed the hope that the President is able to “demonstrate that they are showing us a way out of these difficult times that we are facing.”

He was of the opinion that the way out of these challenges “should be ways which are not retrogressing or superficial tackling of problems which are more deep rooted and fundamental.”

Hayford Francis Asamoah, the Secretary General of the NDP on his part indicated that Ghana at the moment has sunk to the alarming levels therefore, “the President has a lot to tell Ghanaians.”

He stated that President Mahama must be able to tell Ghanaians “why is it that we are in the mess that we find ourselves…and the steps he is going to take to bring us back.”

Tuesday’s state of the nation address will be the second to be delivered by President Mahama since his election in December 2012.

 

By: Efua Idan Osam

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An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

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