President John Mahama’s government has taken strong exception to reports released by UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will lose this year’s elections.

EIU late last year and earlier this year released reports indicating that its key intelligence analysis pointed to victory for the opposition New Patriotic Party’s presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

But speaking on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana programme on Tuesday August 9, 2016, ahead of the official launch of the NDC’s 2016 election campaign in Cape Coast on Sunday August 14, the Minister of Communications, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, said: “The Economist Intelligence Unit must understand that Ghanaians reward hard work. Ghanaians know the government that has worked for the prospects that their (EIU) own reports indicated were bright.”

“To be possible, Ghanaians will not change the horse in the middle of the river when they know: ‘This is the particular horse, not an elephant, this is the particular horse with an umbrella that has ensured that going forward, our GDP growth is going to be eight per cent plus, and then subsequent years 7.5 per cent plus.

“This is the horse with an umbrella that has also ensured that going forward, latest by 2018, we are going to have additional 6,000 hospital beds added to our stock. This is the government that is ensuring 110 million cocoa seedlings are being distributed at low cost to farmers to replace dead and dying cocoa trees.”

“This is the government that is ensuring that from now till 2018, we (the government) are going to increase our gas production up to 300 million SCF, this is the government that is ensuring that we deliver more jobs to the people. This is the government that is ensuring that a fish processing factory at Elmina is also being put in place,” Dr. Omane Boamah said.