Mahama Is Being Selfish With Okada Promise – Ahiagbah

The Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, Richard Ahiagbah says former President John Dramani Mahama is being selfish with his promise to legalise okada that he banned during his administration.

Mr Ahiagbah on The Big Issue on Citi FM/Citi TV insisted that the former President does not care about the lives of okada riders and their passengers hence the promise.

“It's not politics. This is about Mahama who is seeking to rebrand himself but rebranding is not done on humans but on products. The kind of rebranding he wants to do is for us to forget his past and who he has been and suddenly push all of us into a space of chaos just to advance his singular interest of wanting to become a president again. That for me is selfishness of the highest order. It is repugnant, to say the least. Okada is illegal because he banned it but because now it suits his agenda he wants to legalise it again,” the Danquah Institute Executive Director argued.

Mr. Ahiagbah also said Mahama’s promise to legalise okada is also a means the NDC flagbearer is using to rebrand himself.

According to him, Mr. Mahama is seeking to use the promise to lure Ghanaians into forgetting his abysmal performance when he served as Ghana's President.

“This okada discussion is not about the okada riders, it is about former president John Dramani Mahama. It is not about the passengers who sit on it, it is about the former president John Mahama. It is about his integrity and credibility. Because all these arguments were made in 2012 and yet, he went ahead to ban it. Today what has changed is that he is looking for power and because he is looking for power now it makes sense to him regularise it.”

---citinewsroom