Former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has explained his loss in 2016 as ‘God’s Will’ to make Ghanaians appreciate his effort under the current hardship fashioned by the Nana Akufo-Addo’s administration.

He again addressed that citizens are going through hardship invented by their thumbs, which only takes a reversal of decision at the polls in 2020 to bring back the NDC to repair the damage caused.

He made the comment during an address at the 100-year anniversary of the E.P Church at Dabala in the Volta Region on Sunday.

Sometimes when God makes us go through hardship he has a purpose for it…I said it was good and it was God’s will that we lost the election in 2016,” Mahama said.

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“We lost in order that we will continue to have a peaceful country and then secondly, because God wanted us to appreciate what NDC was doing. If NDC had not lost, it will be what we call ‘tragedy of the unlived experience’.

“…and so, if the NDC had not lost and Nana Akufo-Addo and NPP taken over, we would never have appreciated what NDC was doing for us. And so, God said ‘let me let you experience this one too so that you have a basis for comparing the two’,” he added.

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress informed the gathering not to repeat same error made in 2016 but rather endorse the NDC back to power in 2020 to help make Ghana a better place.

“As for the hardship you are going through today, I’m not the one to tell you, all of us are suffering our own hardships…and we are preparing our thumbs for 2020 so that we can change the change,” Mahama said.