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'Accounting tour' not election campaign - Mahama

This is contrary to claims by critics, including the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), that the tour is part of his campaign processes to deceive Ghanaians and abuse his incumbency.

 

But, speaking at separate durbars in the Volta Region during the inauguration of the Dodo-Pepesu to Nkwanta section of the Eastern Corridor road and in the Hohoe municipality, President Mahama said his tour is similar to how chiefs and traditional rulers regularly hold durbars to update their subjects about developments in their areas.

“It is prudent for me as the president, to update Ghanaians about projects and programmes this government has undertaken in the last three years.“If you had been watching TV or listening to radio you would have heard that I went to the Western Region and from there I came to the Eastern Region and what I am doing is called accounting to the people tour to render account of what I have done to the people,” he explained.

“We inaugurated cold stores in the Western Region to help the fishermen preserve their catch if they are unable to sell all of them, not only that; we have commissioned roads in the region. In the Eastern Region too we commissioned a new hospital and a pantoon at Agordeke…so it is the turn of the Volta Region now,” President Mahama added.

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“I have not started campaigning yet. After the launch of the NDC campaign I will come back and I will be in full political battle," he said.

The president, as part of his 'Accounting tour', has already been to the Western and Eastern Regions in the past weeks, interacting with the people and chiefs and commissioning new projects.

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