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Top 5 reasons why Mahama may lose election 2016

Questions are rife over the possible chances of John Mahama confidently winning this year’s elections.

President John Mahama

No incumbent president has lost re-election in the 4th Republic. No party has gone beyond two terms in the 4th Republic.

But questions are rife over the possible chances of John Mahama confidently winning this year’s elections.

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Nana Addo indeed did not win as some believe the Supreme Court case showed. Anyhow, what may be the tie-breaker between Nana and President John Mahama in 2016?

Given this background, I attempt to look at objective reasons as to who is likely to lose, in regards to the 2016 elections. Surely, the NDC has some advantages, the biggest of which is incumbency and the suspected support of the EC.

Here are possible reasons that may cause the president to lose the 2016 elections:

1. Promise and fail – The president just can’t stop promising an end to all our problems and turnarounds to our unprecedented malaise, to no avail. They have even promised to now stop promising. Ghanaians know that these are just hollow promises.

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2. Corruption – Ghanaians know that the corruption of today is record-setting, with the perpetrators walking free. Unprecedented artificial projects inflation, unprecedented ghost names on government payrolls that has even historically friendly governments holding back aid to our nation for the first time, coupled with unprecedented economic retrogression, will not be rewarded by the majority patriotic Ghanaian voter in 2016. President John Mahama has come under intense public criticism for accepting the car gift worth about US$100,000 from a Burkinabe contractor, who was subsequently awarded a contract from the state. The Burkinabe, Djibril Kanazoe, has admitted giving President Mahama a Ford Expedition vehicle, for which the President called to thank him. The GYEEDA Report clearly tells Ghanaians that we are the least on the agenda of the bigwits.

3. The economy – Some key characteristic of under-developed countries is not a lack of rich people. Rather, it is a lack of a wide and thriving middle class as well as greater income disparities. Therefore, a key in measuring real growth or retrogression in economies like Ghana’s is in measuring how the middle class has grown and thrived or not during the last 8 years.

4. Increasingdebt – After the economic collapse of 2000 left by the last NDC government and the certification of that mess by Ghana’s qualification as a HIPC nation, followed by the prudent economic management of the last NPP government, the debt stock left for the NDC government in 2008 was just about GH¢10 billion.

5. No faith in government - Our nations Health Care system is corrupt and overly challenged because the Ministry of Health does not have the proper funding to ensure that Health Professionals are well taken care off, and the bestpractices taught to them to ensure that health system. There is absolutely no trust or faith in the NDC government. We can understand the skeptics, and it is our dedication that would prove to Ghanaians that yes it is time for change, we also reach out to all the other smaller political.

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