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President John Dramani Mahama has been caught in his own web of deception after telling the nation last week that the National Democratic Congress government he now leads had used the last seven years, of its two terms in office, in building the infrastructural base of the country, and that the NDC will need a third consecutive term to enable it "put money into the pockets" of the people, from 2017.
President Mahama, who had in previous years promised Ghanaians a "better Ghana," now says Ghanaians will only feel the effect of his performance in their pockets in the third term of the NDC government, if retained in office in the November elections.
Many see this as a tacit admission of his glaring failure to deliver on his promise of "Better Ghana" for the nation, which was given during the 2012 electioneering campaign.
Having assumed office as the president after the tragic death of the late President John Evans Atta Mills, Mr Mahama told the nation he and his NDC government had used their first term in office to build a solid infrastructural base for the country, as well as a sound economy with better fundamentals than what they inherited from the previous NPP government.
President Mahama therefore promised the second term of the NDC government would see Ghanaians enjoying the fruits of the sound economy they had built. And he repeated same promise to the nation in his State of the Nation Addresses year after year.
For instance, in the Address delivered in February, 2014, he assured Ghanaians of "better days ahead" in the year "in spite of the current socio-economic challenges facing the country".
According to him, at the time, his government had put in place pragmatic measures that would soon yield fruitful results for the nation. "I assure you we shall begin to see the benefits of the sacrifices we are making very soon," he assured the nation.
Even before making that assurance, he had promised in 2013 that new doors of opportunities would be opened in the country in 2014.
Addressing a national thanksgiving service of Aglow International-Ghana at the Independence Square in Accra, he mentioned economic growth and job creation for the youth as some of the fruits the nation would witness that year.
