Let’s call it what it is: a calculated con job dressed up as a campaign.

For months, the NDC marched across Ghana with a script of lies, each one sharper than the last, each one aimed at the raw nerve of a frustrated people. 

To teachers and nurses, they whispered the word you’d been waiting to hear for years: *“Automatic posting.”* They made it sound certain, sealed, delivered. They knew you were tired of sitting at home with certificates gathering dust. So they used your desperation as campaign fuel. 

To graduates crushed by unemployment, they sold the *1:3:3 system* as a job factory. “Mass recruitment is coming,” they said. “Your waiting is over.” 

To Ghanaian women, they dangled the *Women’s Bank* like a lifeline. Capital, independence, power. 

And to the entire nation bleeding from economic hardship, they roared about a *24-hour economy* - a new dawn, round-the-clock jobs, industries reborn overnight.

You believed them. Ghana believed them. And you voted. Overwhelmingly. Because when you’re drowning, any hand that reaches out looks like salvation.

Eighteen months later, the hand is empty.

Where is the automatic posting? Gone. Buried under press conferences and blame-shifting.  

Where is the Women’s Bank? Nowhere. A ghost promise that never left the manifesto page.  

Where is the 24-hour economy? Dead on arrival. Ghana still runs on single shifts and empty promises.  

Where are the jobs for the 1:3:3 graduates? Nowhere to be found. Another mirage in the desert.

This isn’t incompetence. Incompetence is trying and failing. This is betrayal by design. 

The NDC ran Ghana’s version of a *QNET operation*: slick packaging, loud rallies, emotional manipulation, and the moment they got your vote, the product vanished. All that’s left is the receipt of regret in millions of Ghanaian hands.

You don’t govern a nation on slogans. You don’t rebuild an economy on TikTok soundbites. You don’t restore dignity with lies.

So here’s the demand: Apologize.

Apologize to every teacher and nurse whose future you toyed with.  

Apologize to every graduate who believed your lie and stayed home waiting for a call that never came.  

Apologize to Ghanaian women who trusted you with their ambition.  

Apologize to 33 million Ghanaians for treating their hope like a campaign prop.

A government that lies its way into power has no moral right to sit in power. If you cannot deliver, at least have the spine to admit you deceived the people who gave you everything.

Ghana deserves better than a government of scammers in suits. 

Aputara Akasoba Jeremiah

05/06/2026

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