Salam Mustapha, the National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party, has warned the Ghanaian youth that the election of John Dramani Mahama will spell doom for the country.

Addressing a press conference in the Upper East Region, Salam Mustapha stated that John Mahama and Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang have a history of instituting policies that go against the youth, and that the Ghanaian youth must not commit the error of electing them into office.

The NPP youth organizer listed the cancellation of the teacher trainee allowance, among others, as elements of poor governance by John Mahama.

Salam Mustapha, who sought to discredit the candidature of John Mahama, referred to the 2016 defeat as evidence of Ghanaians' verdict on his presidency.

“Ask yourselves, from Kwame Nkrumah to Akufo-Addo, how come John Dramani Mahama is the only leader in our nation’s history who was rejected by Ghanaian voters when he went for re-election? Indeed, ask yourself how come he has been rejected twice since Ghanaians tasted him both as a vice president and as president?” Salam Mustapha queried the Ghanaian youth during the press conference.

He submitted that John Mahama, despite having enormous resources, plunged the country into problems like dumsor.

“He inherited an oil-rich economy and, without any global crisis to deal with, he created his own crisis… Schools did not even have common chalk! The situation was hopeless. The leader himself was rudderless and inept. We witnessed his shambolic performance as president, which saw your parents losing their jobs or customers because of dumsor. Yes, four years of President John Mahama was four years of dumsor,” Salam Mustapha stated.