Former President John Mahama, according to a former High Commissioner to Namibia and Botswana, was a better leader who guided the country's affairs better than what Ghanaians are watching and experiencing under President Akufo-Addo.
Haruna Attah, in an interview with Adom News, described the present government's performance as a disaster.
When comparing former President Mahama's term in office, he stressed the importance of Ghanaians understanding that leadership is not an experiment, and that the country would have been better off if Ghanaians had given the former president the chance to lead the country in the 2016 elections.
This, he says, is because Mahama compares favorably to Kwame Nkrumah and, to a lesser extent, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, whom he regarded as a capable but misunderstood leader.
Haruna Attah has drifted more towards the social democratic doctrines of Ghana's major opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), for which he was named a high commissioner to Namibia and Botswana in Southern Africa.
It is well documented that the former diplomat has used derogatory terms to describe the current President Akufo Addo, whom he has referred to as a con-man on several occasions.
Haruna Attah, a journalist and former editor of the Stateman and Accra Daily Mail newspapers, questioned the current climate in which journalists work.
According to him, the fourth estate's successes in shaping and growing Ghana's democracy under the 1992 constitutional regime have been undermined in the previous five years as a result of journalists and social commentators being arrested and harassed for performing their jobs.
After the infamous incarceration of himself (Haruna Attah) and his friend Kweku Baako, the retired diplomat who turns 70 in September this year reflected on his relationship with late former president Rawlings, noting that the two gentlemen eventually made up for their differences before the latter passed away.
Haruna Attah, who was High Commissioner to Namibia at the time and had a personal meeting with former President Rawlings, said it surprised him that the former president was so polite to him when they had to welcome him during an official visit to Namibia.
In the presence of Samuel Nujoma, who had a special relationship with the late Rawlings, he explained that they both had to put their differences aside to discuss some security challenges threatening the stability of the West African sub-region, particularly with the rise of radical groups like Boko Haram in Nigeria.