Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and flagbearer of the National Democratic Party (NDP), has dismissed President John Mahama and the National Democratic Congress's (NDC) claims of "unprecedented" infrastructural development as falsehoods. In an interview with Class91.3FM’s Paa Kwesi Parker-Wilson, Mrs. Rawlings accused Mr. Mahama of attempting to deceive Ghanaians with exaggerated achievements.

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“I don’t see what the president is talking about because he is lying to us and we won’t accept it,” Mrs Rawlings said.She criticized the Mahama administration for what she viewed as misplaced priorities, citing an example where a school in Derma, designed to accommodate over 5,000 people, was commissioned despite the local population being fewer than 300 residents.“I saw them [government] commissioning a school in Derma.

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… The population in Derma is not more than 300 people [but] the school that has been put there can house over 5,000 people. Is that what you want your monies to be used for?” she questioned.Mrs. Agyeman-Rawlings expressed optimism about her party’s prospects in the upcoming December 7 elections, confident that the existing two-party dominance in Ghana could be overturned.

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“You go to some countries, there are say two or three parties that have entrenched themselves, then suddenly one comes and sees everybody off and they become the government,” she stated.

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