The track record of former president John Dramani Mahama’s performance when he was president between 2012 to 2016 has become an albatross on the neck of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo has said.

Mr Adongo said the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led government is trying hard to match Mr Mahama’s track record but they are unable to.

Speaking at a public lecture on Ghana’s economy in Accra on Thursday, 4 April 2019, Mr Adongo said the managers of the economy are “ineffective and inefficient”.

He said: “Your Excellency [referring to Mahama], your track record has become an albatross on the neck of the NPP. AS hard as they try, they are unable to match that track record.”

Reacting to Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s presentation at a town hall meeting in Accra on 4 April 2019 where the Vice-President assured Ghanaians that the strong macro and microeconomic fundamentals arising from innovative policies and programmes implemented by the government over the last two years have placed Ghana in a strong economic position and made the future very promising, Mr Adongo said: “As I listened to Dr Mahamudu Bawumia deliver yet another inglorious lecture, he was at pains to describe this ineffective and inefficient management as efficient management of the Ghanaian expenditure regime.”

The NDC’s lecture was on the theme: “Ghana’s Rising Fiscal Risk, Financial Crunch and External Vulnerabilities: A Postmortem of ECF with IMF and a Preview of the Economy without IMF”.