former Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu
In yet another desperate attempt to dodge responsibility, former Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has found new scapegoats for the NPP’s crushing defeat in the 2024 elections—this time blaming COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war while conveniently ignoring the government’s abysmal failure in delivering Ghanaians from poverty and hardship.
Speaking on AbusuaNkommo at Abusua FM, the former Suame MP admitted that the ruling party knew it was facing an uphill battle but refused to accept that years of mismanagement, corruption, and economic hardship had pushed Ghanaians to reject them at the polls.
“Heading into the election, I admitted that it was going to be a challenging endeavor,” he said, pointing to Ghana’s historical trend where no party has successfully won more than two consecutive terms since 1992.
Instead of addressing the government’s own shortcomings, Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu shifted the blame to global events, claiming that the NPP’s failure to ‘break the eight’ was due to external factors rather than the suffering they inflicted on Ghanaians.
“The global economic downturn after COVID-19 created numerous hardships,” he claimed, adding that “since 2022, 52 out of 66 countries that held elections saw incumbents lose power.”
Perhaps the most shocking revelation was his attempt to frame Ghana’s pandemic management as a ‘success story,’ despite the well-documented mismanagement of COVID-19 funds and skyrocketing debt that sent the economy into free fall.
“Our COVID-19 response was so good that even countries like the UK and USA wanted to learn from us,” he claimed, conveniently forgetting the billions of Ghana cedis wasted in shady procurement deals and overpriced vaccines.
Even in the face of unprecedented hardship, where businesses collapsed, unemployment soared, and inflation made life unbearable, the former Majority Leader insisted that the Russia-Ukraine war played a major role in Ghana’s economic disaster.
“Ghana faced considerable economic hardships, which were more severe than in many other countries. Consequently, wherever we went, people complained about the difficulties they were facing,” he admitted, yet stopped short of accepting that reckless borrowing, failed policies, and corruption were the real culprits.
While the NPP continues to bury its head in the sand, refusing to accept that it was their incompetence that led to their downfall, Ghanaians have spoken loudly at the ballot box. No amount of blame-shifting can erase the reality: the NPP failed, and the people had enough.
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