Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the NPP’s running partner in the 2024 election, claims that after months of political introspection, one harsh reality has emerged: the NPP did not pay enough attention during the Nana Akufo-Addo administration.
Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the NPP’s running partner in the 2024 election, claims that after months of political introspection, one harsh reality has emerged: the NPP did not pay enough attention during the Nana Akufo-Addo administration.
“One thing I’ve concluded in the last 10 months is that there was a broken trust between citizens to government. The trust that was broken hurt so much so that we saw the results so broken,” he said on Joy News’ PM Express on Tuesday.
Asked by host Evans Mensah what caused that rupture, Dr Opoku Prempeh was blunt.
“We didn’t listen enough, we assumed a lot of things we shouldn’t have assumed,” he admitted.
Even their sense of purpose as a government was strained, he continued.
He claimed that the world had been rocked on several fronts and that this made things more difficult.
“We had gone through the West, global economic climate, medically and economically or health-wise,” he said.
He claimed that all governments were caught in a tornado. Only autocratic regimes survived the shocks, he claimed, with several being overthrown.
He emphasized how drastically the world economy has changed and cited startling shifts in the price of necessities.
“A container from China that cost $1200 logistic-wise had risen to $14,000. People’s lifetime savings have been wiped out,” he said.
The human cost was equally catastrophic, he continued.
“People had died in their droves that had never been seen before, without a military crisis or World War. So a lot of things that happened.”
Despite the challenging global climate, Dr. Prempeh insisted that their greatest shortcoming was failing to engage the public in a timely manner. And everything that came after, in his opinion, was made possible by that failure.
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