The Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mustapha Gbande, has accused the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) of refusing to acknowledge the country’s current power outages, known locally as “dumsor,” to avoid political consequences.
Gbande’s remarks come in support of NDC flagbearer John Dramani Mahama accusation of the NPP government attempting to deflect responsibility for the ongoing power issues ahead of the upcoming elections.
Mahama, speaking at a campaign event claimed that the government’s lack of a load-shedding timetable was a deliberate effort to obscure the extent of the power crisis and shift responsibility to a future NDC administration, should his party win.
In an interview on Eyewitness News on Citi FM on Tuesday, Gbande asserted that the NPP’s reluctance to address the power crisis reflects a fear of losing political support.
“Can somebody in the NPP under President Akufo-Addo be honest enough to say that this is the reality? We are back to dumsor as President Mahama did. So, it is a school of thought of a dishonest class of people against a group of people who are willing to be real with the Ghanaian people. That is the same game plan they used in deceiving all of us and we have gotten to this point we are in. It is just a bunch of people who don’t have an appreciation of the truth.
“They are not truthful to the people of Ghana, they have refused to be truthful, and they will never be. The same people are rebranding themselves that Ghanaians should give them another opportunity. They are afraid that if they come to tell Ghanaians that we are having a dumsor, they will be punished politically, but the people of Ghana are discerning, ” he stated.
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