Deputy Minority Leader Patricia Appiagyei has asserted that President Mahama’s State of the Nation Address presents no hope for Ghanaians. The Asokwa MP claimed that the President’s address on Thursday, February 27, 2025 was empty and only bothered on initiatives by the erstwhile Akufo-Addo administration.
He urged President Mahama to fix the sinking economy if he claims Ghanaians voted a resounding victory for the NDC. “I don’t think there’s hope for anybody because all that I listened to were lamentations. If you are lamenting, you have been given the mantle and you claim you have been given a resounding victory then fix it and what we expect are the plans to fix it,” she said. The lawmaker noted that President Mahama’s first State of the Nation Address for his second term is not the true reflection of the current state of the country.
According to her, revocation of appointments and employment, insecurity and lawlessness are the state of the nation currently, 50 days since President Mahama assumed office. The Asokwa MP said the President’s address should have captured these realities as the true reflection of the nation.
I must say that the true state of the nation is not what the President delivered today because if we are talking about 50 days in office, the true state of the government is about lawlessness, the true state of the economy is about revocation of employment, the true state of the economy is insecurity.
“The true state of the economy is economic mismanagement already. These are the things happening in the country at the moment,” she told TV3’s Eric Mawuena Egbeta few moments after President Mahama delivered his SONA.
“What we also expected was for the President to come up with a statement that everybody will wow him but it is business as usual. There is nothing tremendously new about what the President said,” Appiagyei remarked.
By: Raphael Ghartey
