Alabi Defends Mahama Over His ‘Akufo Has Shorter Life To Repay Debts’ Comment

Campaign Manager of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor Joshua Alabi has jumped to the defense of the party’s flagbearer over comments he made concerning President Akufo Addo and his excessive borrowing.

Speaking to the chiefs and elders of the Nadowli traditional council, John Dramani Mahama urged the youth to demand accountability from the Akufo-Addo-led government with regards to expenditure of borrowed money because the President won’t live long enough to repay those loans.

He stated, “If we follow the order of life, the path ahead of Akufo-Addo is shorter than all of you, young people. If you go to the market, you’ll see a small goatskin and an old goatskin. Young people can die I agree but if the natural order is to be maintained somebody who is twenty years old is going to live the next fifty years”.

“At my age, I’m going to live shorter, Nana Akufo-Addo is going to live shorter because at his age, in the natural order of things, he has shorter time so that debt he is not going to pay,” he added.

Some Ghanaians and particularly, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have been unhappy with the comment and have insisted the former president apologises.

However, Joshua Alabi speaking to Citi News noted that John Maham’s statement was not wrong insisting he only mean well for the Ghanaian youth.

“…I tell my son all things being equal, I’ll leave him unless the exceptions…it means that you should have an interest in what I do; which will have an effect on your life. So that is the context…Let them say; in Ghana even when you marry one they say trouble, two they say trouble, three trouble so let them say…so if I’m a leader today you should have an interest in what I leave for you. So if I go about borrowing by heart you should have an interest…”

 “…It is not wrong, I’m giving myself as example; I’m in this house, I have children and I go about borrowing knowing very well that I may not be able to pay before God calls me. All things being equal, my children have the right to call me…” Alabi said.

Source: GhanaFeed.com