A foremost member of the Legal and Communications teams of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abraham Amaliba has revealed that the Mahama -led administration built the Ho aerodrome in the Volta Region to pacify the inhabitants after the party neglected them.
According to him, the people of Volta Region which is the stronghold of the NDC party were angry at the government for failing to undertake developmental projects in their area and rather focused on doing massive infrastructural projects in the opposition party’s stronghold when the party knew it wouldn’t get any substancial votes from that area.
Lawyer Amaliba said, in a bid to win back the people of the Volta Region the party quickly had to come up with something to appease them, for which reason the Ho aerodrome was built but that was late in the day to change anything.
Three days before the December 7 elections, President John Mahama commisioned the uncompleted Ho aerodrome project which is estimated to cost $25 million and expected to be completed in 2017.
Many have criticized the construction of the Aerodrome in Ho arguing that it does not make economic sense, but government has justified it saying it falls in line with government programme to make Ghana West Africa’s aviation hub.
The NDC lost the general polls, both Presidential and Parliamentary in an election that the party was so confident of winning, due to the massive infrastructural development carried out by President John Mahama in his first term of office. President Mahama polled 4,713,277 votes as against President -elect Nana Akufo Addo who garnered 5,716, 026 votes.
Speaking on Joy FM’s Newsfile show, Lawyer Amaliba blamed the NDC’s painful defeat partly to apathy on the part of its grassroots.
“I think that we’re yet to do self introspection as a party and so I’ll not be able to tell the reasons for our failure, but I’ll not also say that I don’t hear what people are saying all over. One of it is apathy on the part of our grassroots, our grassroots were of the view that the party has not come to their aid and has not provided for their needs to the extent that in some cases the party was rather taking care of the needs of other people who’re not grassroots of the party.”
He continued:“For example in the Volta Region…the voters were of the view that do whatever you want to do Ashanti Region will never vote for the NDC, so you send a market there when we also need a market, when you send a military hospital there when we also need it, and you deny us some of these things then there will be apathy. Recognizing that, what did the government do? we quickly had to send some aerodrome to try to see if we can appease them in terms of what we did for the Ashanti Region but, it was too little to late. The grassroots felt neglected, felt their needs were not taken care of and they abstained from voting.”
Lawyer Amaliba added: “You notice from the results that Nana Akufo Addo won this election with a little over what he did in 2012, now you notice from the results that people abstained from voting for President Mahama but did not translate that into voting for Nana Akufo Addo. What is gratifying in this is that they are still available for us, it means that when we do the right things we’ll still get them into our fold. That for me is gratifying and I think leadership will begin to look at that and see how to appease them.”
Source: kasapafmonline
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Ho market women re under de sun cos the market is still under construction,we cant boast of better lorry station,u thought airport is more important to us. When a flow is de source of ur joy u must feed it ,prune it,nourish to gain strength when u dont do all these things it gets malnourished withers and die. So u wl lose lose n lose cos we dont care about u anymore Prosper bani n co
Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard(NDC); consider its ways and be wise!
How many voltarians are going to use the airport? Only the rich. We rather need good roads...... This NDC guys are very incompetent.... You think building an airport in Ho will make us all to vote for you? It will not serve me bcos it is too far away from my village. Next time think and stop playing politics in everything you do.
Even with swollen brain, he still talks trash.
"WHEN WE DO THE RIGHT THINGS FOR THEM". WHAT THINGS CAN YOU DO RIGHT WHEN YOU DON'T CONTROL THE NATION'S PURSE SO AS TO QUICKLY RUSH TO BUILD AN AERODROME FOR OUR VOLTARIAN BROTHERS? WHEN YOU PLAY WITH A ***barred word*** AND YOU ASK HIM TO CLAP TILL THE PALMS DEVELOP BURSTS,THE GAME ENDS. THE VOLTARIANS DESERVED EQUAL ATTENTION BUT NOT YOUR SEEMING TRIBAL CARD THAT YOU DID THIS AND THAT IN KUMASI. COULDN'T YOU HAVE HURRIEDLY SENT THE NKRUMAH INTERCHANGE TO HO INSTEAD TO APPEASE THEM? TALK IS CHEAP,AMALIBA
tickle urself and laugh. those that couldnt vote for the NDC this time around are the Ghosts that the NPP made sure never resurrect.this time they are dead and will never resurrect by any strange means. your ways and means are being closely monitored
My brother Amaliba, kindly shut your trap and stop misinforming us. Our great party lost because you all became "powerful" suddenly with no quarter given for dissent from the ground up. A complete failure of intelligence and security from bottom up is what has ensured our 'wet landing' which likely may persist if leadership fails to unplug their ears to common sense. Appointees have been pretending to work all this while across Ghana, feeding fat from the tax payer and without so much as a caution or warning of sorts from mr. president. We are not DUMB my brother, and the earlier you guys in the top most branches of the irroko tree wise up, the better it will bode for our party in future elections. How can ministers, MCEs and DCEs keep lying to the president and still be at post if not under JM? Painful, isn't it?
oh so in the name of winning votes or appeasing voters, gov't can just decide oh lets build an aerodrome in a community where it makes no economic sense? Jesus Christ!!! So these were some of the decisions that informed some of these infrastructural projects right?. Oh lets do something to deceive them. This is sad indeed. So you see, am sure the voters also realized the deception in there right??
Isn't this the problem with the NDC and why they should NEVER rule this country again? Huge investments only to appease the voting public? By all means satisfy voters, but where's the economics? Value for money? Returns on investments? Another 4 years, they would have grounded this country!
Lawyer Amaliba, You miss the point completely. Kindly note that it's not about APPEASING people, instead it's about WORKING FOR THEM! If I give you a mandate, you don't become my boss! You use that mandate to work for me, and in my interest!