A member of the governing NPP named Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has counseled party members to simply treat Ghanaians as voters during election years and to refrain from using inflation statistics as a tool for equalization politics.
He believes that this is not the appropriate time for NPP members to engage in equalization politics with NDC opponents.
The Ghanaian people, he claimed, should be treated more like citizens at this time because of the economy’s high rates of inflation, high interest rates, and the weakening cedi.
He maintains that currently the world is experiencing an unprecedented economic crisis and Ghana is suffering badly from the situation because it is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“NPP shouldn’t play the politics of equalization with the NDC on inflation, interest rates & cedi depreciation.
“The world is facing an economic crisis like never before in peace time. Ghana has been hit very hard because our economic recovery was being delicately managed pre-COVID,” Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko tweeted.
“This is not election year, so don’t treat Ghanaians like voters but citizens. Politics of comparisons works when elections are before us.
“Right now people just care about how to make ends meet. Use your energy in showing what is being done to bring relief,” he warned.
Ghana’s inflation rate has increased to 37.2 percent in September 2022. The Ghana Cedi, is struggling.
The Cedi has been reported by Bloomberg to be the world’s worst-performing currency this year as investors continued to squeeze foreign capital into the west African country before a deal with the International Monetary Fund.
The currency of the world’s second-biggest cocoa producer depreciated as much as 3.3% Monday, before paring the loss to 11.2750 per dollar at 3:30 p.m. in the capital Accra. That took its losses this year to more than 45%, the most among 148 currencies tracked by Bloomberg.