Focus on the success of Mahama’s gov’t and not your presidential ambition—Mosquito to appointees

Johnson Asiedu Nketia has charged members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its appointees to focus on ensuring that the current government succeeds.

He says if there is success in the current government, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) stands to gain, as it will improve their chances in the 2028 elections.

However, if the party, its members, and appointees focus on who will take over from John Dramani Mahama, then the party stands to lose gravely.

Asiedu Nketia made this known in an interview with Channel 1 Media.

“I have been monitoring this whole discussion about who is running and who is not running for the presidency in the NDC, but I keep repeating my caution that we have to be very careful about the way we express our ambitions. Whoever succeeds President Mahama will ride on the achievements of this government. So, in your effort to succeed, President Mahama, if you conduct yourself in ways that will disrupt the activities of this government, in ways that will make the government less successful, then you will have a bigger problem when you become flagbearer. That is why I have been cautioning that let us wait till the time,” he stated.

Adding that “President Mahama is only about eight months in office now, and you want to struggle for who will replace him. All the names we are hearing, including my own name, are occupying sensitive positions both in the party and the government. If all of us decide to say that people say I can be president, so let me start organizing, then everybody will be going across the country, appointing campaign coordinators and so on. How do you think that President Mahama can keep the party and government together and focus on achieving anything? If you are a minister and you are overtaken by your desire to be a president, everything you do will be to satisfy your ambition.”

To him, talks about presidential ambitions, among others, must be relegated for now, and focus given to the work at stake to better the lot of the Ghanaian people.

He believes that Ghanaians will not forgive the NDC if they fail to deliver on their promises, and any flagbearer who comes after John Dramani Mahama may suffer from the sins of the current government.

Therefore, it is imperative that the focus is placed on ensuring that the current government makes strides.

“Our situation is worse because you’ll hear about a Chief of Staff being mentioned. If it turns out to be true, the Chief of Staff is establishing structures and making money to prepare for elections, his ministers working under him are doing the same thing, and his chairman, too, is doing the same thing. How will President Mahama be able to put things together for us? So if we are naked and we destroy the government less than a year into President Mahama’s regime, how is anybody who eventually succeeds going to have sufficient basis to tell Ghanaians to vote for us?”