A leading figure in the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Otchere-Darko, has expressed frustration over the lack of recognition for president Akufo-Addo’s significant achievements.

Despite notable progress under President Akufo-Addo, particularly in education and health, Mr. Otchere-Darko feels that these contributions have not been given due credit.

In an interview with Umaru Sanda Amadu on Face to Face on Channel One TV, Mr. Otchere-Darko pointed out that while overall conditions have improved, the quality of education has been preserved even with increased access.

“If more children are gaining access to education, and the results show that the quality of education has not fallen, what other problems matter? And there are more teachers than they had before. Teachers are not complaining that they have not been paid their salaries. I think that Akufo-Addo has not been given the credit that he deserves.”

He highlighted that many businesses were nearly failing during Mahama's presidency because of frequent power outages, often referred to as “Dumsor.”

In comparison, he noted that Akufo-Addo's administration has shown resilience, contrasting with Mahama’s government, which had to secure an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout despite no global economic crisis at that time.

“In 2015, and 2016 we didn’t have any global crisis, yet we have queues at our filling stations. In 2015, and 2016, go and ask Ghanaian barbers, seamstresses, hairdressers, cold store operators, and hoteliers. Hotels were refusing to accept people because they could not afford to turn the lights on for their generators.

“People were working and using most of their salaries to pay electricity bills, to keep the generator on. All these things happened even though there was no global crisis.

“The global crisis that the world went through that Ghana suffered badly, and Ghanaians suffered, what if we didn’t have Akufo-Addo and we had somebody else? Compare what happened maybe 2014, and 2015 when we were forced to go to IMF for a bailout when we didn’t have a global crisis.

He recognized the difficulties Ghanaians have endured over the past three years, but observed that conditions are beginning to stabilize.

“People have struggled for the past three years, there’s absolutely no two ways about that. It’s called the cost of living crisis. And it’s not peculiar to Ghana, but because of our vulnerabilities, it has hurt us the most than many countries… Every Ghanaian can say that they can see some level of normalisation.”