Former President John Mahama has challenged President Akufo-Addo to consider resigning over the Ghana cedi’s sharp depreciation. Speaking at a rally in Lugni, Wulensi constituency, in the Northern region, Mahama reminded the public that Akufo-Addo, as a candidate, once suggested that the late President John Evans Atta Mills should resign when the cedi was trading at GH2 to the dollar.

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Now, with the cedi nearing GH¢17 to the dollar, Mahama questioned whether Akufo-Addo would follow his own advice and step down under the current economic circumstances.“He’s on video, and he said that Kufour’s time, Gh¢1 [equals] one dollar, Mahama and Mills time, two cedis, one dollar, and that if he were Mills and Mahama, he would resign. I’m asking him, today one dollar, 17 cedis, would he resign?” he quizzed.

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The NDC flagbearer asked the president to “tell the people of Ghana when he’s going to resign.”.Mr Mahama appealed to the Independent Parliamentary Candidate for the area, Stanley, who broke away from the party, to put his ambitions aside and rejoin the NDC.

said that breaking away was only going to affect his political career because the NDC was going to win massively in the Parliamentary and

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presidential elections.Speaking at Bimbilla in the Nanumba North Municipality, former President Mahama opined that members of the international community have been asking questions about Ghana’s ‘deteriorating’ democracy.“Anywhere I go, the question people outside in the world ask me is, ‘Ghana, what happened to you?’” he claimed.

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Mr Mahama said Ghana was not only a model of democracy but also a model of economic management but was quick to note that the country’s democracy and economy were in shambles.He said, “Everybody looked up to Ghana as the model of democracy; today, we’re a quack model of democracy. Our judiciary is not independent; all our state institutions have been destroyed.

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People looked up to Ghana as a country that was a model of economic management; today our economy is in shambles.”Mr Mahama was later at Ngani in the Yendi constituency on Tuesday evening,, where he addressed a mammoth rally.

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