Dr. Arthur Kennedy, a Ghanaian physician practicing in the United States, has suggested that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) play back footage of Vice President Dr. Maghsamudu Bawumia promising enormous things to Ghanaians that he hasn’t fulfilled.
It is possible to argue that some of these broken promises have unintentionally added to the current survival struggles faced by Ghanaians.
According to Dr. Arthur Kennedy, Dr. Bawumia, who is running for president of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), misled Ghanaians in order to gain power and utterly failed to keep his word to the people of Ghana.
In an interview on Citi News, Dr. Arthur Kennedy said “A government that has missed most of its promises, and all that the NDC has to do is to show videos of government officials, especially the Vice President, making promises, and when they finish, ask, my fellow Ghanaians, are you better off than you were eight years ago? And that will be the election right there. The question is what is going to be the NPP’s fiction or spin.”
In the 2024 presidential elections, he hinted that none of the two front-runners in the party’s upcoming presidential primaries would be able to challenge former President John Mahama.
Considering the track record of the current administration, headed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, he claims that neither candidate has a message to carry forward.
The NPP government launched a website in February 2020 with the express purpose of keeping tabs on the promises made in its manifesto and charting its achievements.
The NPP’s 2016 manifesto promises are tracked down on the www.delivery.gov.gh website, which also offers information on the government’s accomplishments three years into its tenure.
Dr. Bawumia restated that, in contrast to some policy think tanks’ 72% claim, the government has fulfilled 78% of its commitments; however, he did not provide any matrix or index to support his assertions beyond the graphs displayed during the town hall meeting.
