Hon. Alexander Akwasi Acquah has delivered a sharp rebuke to the governing National Democratic Congress, accusing the party of betraying the very voters who put them in office — and doing so by repeating the exact behaviours it once condemned.
Speaking on Angel FM’s morning show on Thursday, March 26, Acquah argued that the NDC has wasted little time abandoning the principles it championed in opposition. The party campaigned on the promise of a different kind of governance, he said — and many Ghanaians, particularly neutral and independent voters who gave the NDC the benefit of the doubt, are now watching that promise unravel.
His criticism went further than disappointment. Some of what the government is currently doing, he argued, is not merely inconsistent with its campaign messaging — it is worse than what the NDC itself attacked when it was seeking power. That, he suggested, is a particular kind of betrayal: one that turns the party’s own words into an indictment.
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Acquah directed his closing remarks squarely at the NDC’s leadership, urging them to pause and measure their actions against the commitments they made to the electorate. Political parties, he stressed, are not exempt from accountability once they cross the floor from opposition to government — if anything, the obligation to honour campaign promises becomes more pressing, not less, when power is finally within reach.
The remarks add to a growing chorus of voices questioning whether the NDC’s early period in government reflects the change agenda it sold to Ghanaians at the polls.