Akufo-Addo will have no ‘Infrastructure Debate’ with Mahama – Sammi Awuku

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rejected a challenge to debate over Ghana’s Infrastructure development, as thrown by the Flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President John Dramani Mahama.

Mahama had on Wednesday, August 19, challenged the Akufo-Addo-led government to a debate over infrastructure in order to settle the issue of whose government has performed well in the area of infrastructure.

According to the NPP’s National Organizer, Mr. Sammi Awuku,, there was no need for a debate to tell Ghanaians what the Akufo-Addo government has done in the provision of infrastructure and that Ghanaians “can see those infrastructure for themselves.”

Sammi Awuku

Mr. Sammi Awuku, in an interview with Accra-based Joy FM on Thursday, August 20, 2020, said President Akufo-Addo will not debate Mr Mahama.

Mr Awuku said in the areas of both infrastructure and industrialization, "you don't need someone to tell you about what is happening; you see it, you walk through it... "

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He said under the Akufo-Addo-led government, Tamale is having its first interchange and that many other infrastructural projects are being undertaken in many parts of the country.

He said he does not understand "why Mr Mahama wants us to go this way", adding that the party (NPP) has its own strategies for the 2020 elections and that the party "will go according to our own strategies."

Commenting on the issue on the same platform, the Deputy Information Minister, Pius Enam Hadzide, said Mr Mahama cannot stand President Akufo-Addo to a debate if Mr Mahama does not employ communist tactics.

He said President Akufo-Addo has achieved an unprecedented record in infrastructure in the Fourth Republic.

Mr Hadzide therefore described Mr Mahama’s debate challenge "as pointless, unnecessary and insulting to the people of Ghana."