COVID-19: Mahama Dumps Politics, Ready To Work With Akufo Addo

Former President John Mahama has pledged to work with his political arch-rival and current President Akufo Addo to combat the raging coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic that has been recorded in Ghana.

According to the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) he has instructed his former appointees who were on hand during the Ebola outbreak in 2014, to assist the current government in tackling the raging Covid-19 threat.

The former president is apparently banking his hopes on the expertise acquired by his appointees during the battle to keep the equally deadly Ebola out of Ghana.

“I have instructed my communications team and my public health advisors to support any efforts by the Ghana Health Service and the Ministry of Health in this particular regard. I have also asked all former appointees of my administration who assisted in our readiness efforts during the ebola epidemic to aid the government in whatever way they can IF REQUESTED TO DO SO. This virus is an enemy to all Ghanaians and the call to duty in the fight against it rises above partisanship and politics,” Ex-President Mahama said in his Facebook Livestream today.

 “My party and I will play our role in supporting national effort to mitigate the threats and to support our people through this crisis,” he said.

The former president charged the Akufo-Addo government to publish a comprehensive plan on how it intends to deal with emergency cases around the country.

“We will be supportive of the measures and actions taken by government while remaining vigilant in ensuring that the public is adequately protected. This is not the time for words, it is time for action…what the government didn’t address is the wide-reaching economic impacts of the pandemic,” President Mahama said in one of the rarest act of cooperation with the incumbent government.

The two biggest political parties in Ghana hardly cooperate as they seek to outwit each other for political capital. However, it appears the reality of the deadly threat posed by Covid-19 has forced the two to for once, seek to cooperate on a common national course.