Chairman Wontumi has placed a spiritual embargo on the Presidential ambition of Mr. John Mahama by stating that he won’t taste political power again.
The Ashanti Regional Chairman for the New Patriotic Party is a man who doesn’t shy away from his strong faith in Jesus Christ. In the name of his savior, he has told former President John Mahama that he has been blocked from becoming President of Ghana again.
His comments come on the heels of a message by Mr. John Mahama that he would grow local businesses if voted into power.
Before the 2020 elections, ex-President Mahama stated that if he wins power, his government will provide support to Ghanaians venturing into manufacturing and agribusinesses to help boost their trade.
“One of the things that I want to do is to encourage Ghanaian business because over the years the share of Ghanaian business in our GDP has consistently fallen. In the 70s, the share of Ghanaian business in our GDP was 72 percent. Today, I believe it is somewhere around 40 percent and so it means that a greater share of our GDP is in the hands of foreigners than Ghanaians. And so, we are going to prioritize Ghanaian businesses and stimulate Ghanaian business to be able to grow and expand into other areas out of commerce.”
But Chairman Wontumi reacted to this by telling Wontumionline.com that Mr. Mahama is a man who can’t be trusted when it comes to growing local businesses. According to him, Mr. Mahama’s record when it comes to agribusinesses is very poor making him deceitful.
“We must remember that under John Mahama his government couldn’t even handle guinea fowls. How can such a man be trusted to grow our agriculture sector? The guinea fowls which were supposed to be housed in Ghana ended up migrating to Burkina Faso”, Chairman Wontumi said.
The NPP Chairman also pointed out John Mahama’s talk about revamping the manufacturing sector is also worthless noting that “this man told us he had built the Komenda Sugar factory but it was all a lie. He build it without have the resources to run it”.