The General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, says that President Akufo Addo’s handling of the Covid -19 is unrivalled.
He opined that the Akufo-Addo administration has faced the worst ever international crisis in Covid-19, which has depreciated the global economy however, the president has done a yeoman’s work in managing the pandemic for which reason it is a shining example to other countries.
“President Akufo-Addo has received worldwide commendation for his handling of the COVID pandemic and Ghana is often used as an example for other countries to emulate”.
John Boadu made this known during a press conference he addressed on Tuesday, September 7, 2021 at the NPP headquarters.
He believed that John Mahama’s lack of understanding of the Covid-19 economy is positively dangerous for Ghana as it badly skews his feeble attempts at analysis of the nation’s current economic situation.
While noting that all economic modelling worldwide is premised on Covid-19 and the ability to preserve lives and livelihoods, the General Secretary asserts that the IMF, has certified Ghana’s economy as one of the fastest growing in terms of Covid-19 economic rebound.
“Mahama put together a Covid-19 advisory team. Covid-19 is not over yet. Where is the advisory team announced to applause and pageantry?”, he queried.
He mocked the former president for not having any plans to resolve the numerous Covid-19 related challenges plaguing the nation.
“What would Mahama have done differently? What and where are his alternatives? Alternative financial plan and alternative Covid-19 management plan? He has no plan because he does not realise and accept that Covid-19 has a fundamental impact on the economy.
What is former President Mahama’s approach to securing vaccines? What is his alternative to keeping schools open, which he and his party criticised vehemently barely a year ago? What is the Mahama alternative to the measures in the cocoa sector that have yielded an all record cocoa bean output? Indeed, what is John Mahama’s alternative to anything, apart from the IMF? If you are the alternative, then spell out your alternatives to the Ghanaian people now”
John Boadu suggested that John Mahama should offer tangible alternatives, capable of feasibility testing, instead of just criticising.
