IMF intervention: Breaking the 8 will not be easy

MP for Assin Central, Mr. Kennedy Agyapong.

The MP for Assin Central, Mr. Kennedy Agyapong has said that the NPP government going for IMF intervention will impact the party’s electoral fortunes as far as breaking the 8 is concerned. In his view, the NPP government’s decision to go to the IMF can be likened to handing over power to the NDC without a fight.

“You sitting here and you are smiling; IMF? What are we going to say again? Somebody texted me, don’t say anything about IMF. Me I shouldn’t say anything about IMF? I will say it! I will say it! You know going into IMF is just like handing over power to the NDC without a contest, straightway.”

According to him, the NPP previously accused the NDC government for going to IMF as a result of economic mismanagement and to him breaking the 8 was going to be difficult for the party.

“Because the noise we made and I chew my own words back when I said NDC went to IMF because of mismanagement of the economy. So, if NPP is going to IMF, what am I going to say? What am I going to say? So breaking the eight, is going to be tough. You cannot use the face of those who took us to IMF to break the eight. It wont work! My message to you is simple! You cannot, read my lips and I am not scared of anybody in the party.

“I will tell you the gospel truth; it is the gospel truth! Those who took you to IMF; those same face cannot break the eight. A word to the wise is enough. I am very sad today when I saw the publication that, we are going to IMF. You know that is what Mahama was praying for; he has gotten his wish.”, he added.

Mr. Agyapong finally ended his submission by asking the party to remain united and work hard if they were to break the 8 in the 2024 election.

“It will not be easy; it will take hard work and so we should brace ourselves that there is a task ahead of us. Therefore, it is only unity that will help us sail through this breaking the eight.”

In a letter signed by the Minister of Information, Mr. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah on Friday, the 1^st of July, 2022, President Akufo-Addo has authorized the finance minister, Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta to begin engagements with the IMF, inviting them to support its economic program.

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