Former NDC executive descends on Mahama
A former executive of the Tema East constituency branch of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has blamed the flagbearer of his party, for what he says is, “crisis of public image,” due to people finding it difficult to trust him.
According to Mr. Stephen Ashitey Adjei, alias Moshake, Mr. Mahama now comes across as a dishonest character because he has been speaking on both sides of his mouth since he led the NDC into opposition in 2016.
“It is forever engraved in our memory that after he had misled us into opposition with the most massive defeat by almost one million votes, he and his family came out to say that he was quitting politics,” Moshake said on the sidelines of a funeral of an ex-Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority worker, Matthew Ofosuware, alias Gborsh.
“However, when it was time for the NDC to prepare for the next elections in 2020, he started using some of his boys to stage impressions that he was wanted back in the party and upon that muscled his way to the flagbearership again.”
According to Moshake, that singular act of “lies and tricks” has forever marked John Mahama out as an insincere person.
“John Mahama still had our sympathies as members of the NDC until he pulled that shenanigans and that is why many people cannot take him serious; he should not have lied to the NDC and indeed, every Ghanaian that he has been president over,” Moshake said.
According to the former NDC executive, the lies he told misled many presidential materials in the party into thinking that the time had come for them to step up to the plate and so when his promise turned out to be lies, it led to the creation of ill-will within the top brass of the NDC.
“Another lie that is responsible for this was Mr. Mahama’s deliberate promise to many people that he would make them running mate for the 2020 elections only for the people he had promised to find out that he had made the same promise to multiple persons.”
The funeral at which Moshake spoke to journalists was one for Matthew Ofosuware, a brother of former Tema East NPP Secretary and Metropolitan Chief Executive for Tema, Kempes Ofosuware, alias Wire-wire.
Matthew is the latest of former GPHA workers who were retrenched in 2002 without their severance benefits to die, passing on from a life of melancholy due to abject poverty from being abandoned by the GPHA after serving his country.
There were about 4,000 of them when the Kufuor government arbitrarily retrenched them and left them without paying them their severance benefits.
The ex-workers have since agitated but when the late John Evans Atta Mills was president, a petition from their leader, Moshake, resulted in Mills directing the Transport Ministry to pay the ex-workers. However not long after that, Mills died suddenly in office leaving the process to John Mahama who had succeeded Mills as president, to complete.
However, rather than see to it that the fiat directing the Trade Ministry to pay is carried out, Mahama snubbed the ex-workers, never even replying a single follow-up petition. As a result the ex-workers were not paid and have not been paid till now.
At the funeral, many of the ex-workers poured scorn on Mr. John Mahama accusing him of being the reason why they have suffered for many years.
Those in attendance at the funeral include Hon. Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus Glover, brand new Greater Accra Regional Minister, Hon. Isaac Ashai Odamtten, MP for Tema East, James Ashimadi, vice chairman of Tema East NDC, Albert Antwi Nuamah, Richster Nii Amarh Amarhfio and Theophilus Ankamah Densu Tetteh, leading members of NDC and loyalists of John Mahama.
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