The Peoples National Convention (PNC) has said the Ghanaian electorate is responsible for political parties sometimes coming out with unrealistic and achievable campaign promises during an election year.
According to the General Secretary of the party, Atik Mohammed, the electorate over the years have shunned political parties which are not loud and have no grand policies, claiming such parties have timid visions.
There is currently a raging controversy over the largest opposition New Patriotic Party Flagbearer’s promise to build one dam in each villages in the regions up North of the country.
Nana Akufo-Addo said if voted into office in December, his government would implement a policy to sink a dam in every village in the three northern regions – Northern, three East and Upper West regions – as part of its measures to enhance agricultural productivity in the Savanna regions.
But soon after Akufo Addo’s promise, stalwarts of the NDC including ministers have rubbished his intended policy saying it’s impracticable to have a dam in every village in all villages in the three regions up north of the country.
Others have even described him as a day dreamer who’s desperate to win power hence has resorted to churning out unrealistic campaign promises to hoodwink the Ghanaian electorate.
But though Atik Mohammed described the controversy over the NPP promise as needless, he urged the electorates not to be easily carried away by such promises.
“Because a party is not loud the electorates don’t take such a party seriously, meanwhile such ambitious policies are the ones that bring us problems. Political parties come promising all sort of policies and programmes but at the end of the day when they are voted into power they fail to deliver these promises.
