Sammy Gyamfi, the NDC's national communications officer, is requesting an unequivocal apology from the government for the "excruciating difficulties they continue to put on the Ghanaian people."
The NDC executive claims that despite having the most resources in the Fourth Republic's history, the present administration has not been able to support the economy and has instead turned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout.
He maintains that the NDC, which was led by John Dramani Mahama in 2015, would not have turned to the IMF if it had the same resources as the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
"The NPP's attempt to equalise and justify the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government's choice to seek an IMF bailout is a disingenuous one," On Saturday, July 2, he posted on Facebook, calling the situation "pathetic and ludicrous to say the least."
He claimed that compared to past governments in the present Republic, the current administration has access to greater oil income, tax revenue, and borrowed money.
They've had access to more than GH 500 billion in total income, as opposed to the GH 200 billion that went to the NDC/Mahama government.
According to him, the administration "wasted all the unprecedented revenues that have come to them on spending, profligacy, and corruption," which is why it was decided to seek an IMF bailout.
"Today, history has shown their emptiness, irresponsibility, dishonesty, and hypocrisy. The least they can do in light of the situation is to bury their conceit, swallow their haughtiness, take ownership of the mess they have made, admit that their poor economic management has rendered them useless, and offer their apologies to the Ghanaian people for the excruciating hardships they continue to subject them to.
To continue defending the situation of the economy, he claimed, "would simply widen the deep abyss they have thrown themselves into." He suggested that the administration should eat humble pie.
"In a time like this, Ghanaians desire for leadership that accepts responsibility and exhibits sensitivity to the condition of the people, not the puffed up arrogance and intransigence this government continues to portray."
The private legal expert had foreseen that the government would approach the IMF, but he said that if the Electronic Transaction Levy Policy is not quickly abandoned, it will be irrelevant.
"We are sick of having to pay the e-levy; it is theft, not a tax. On June 29, he made the following statement outside the Arise Ghana demonstration: "We don't care if the government goes to the IMF or to Afghanistan.
"We are unable to make e-levy payments till 2024. For the time being, we must abolish the e-levy because we cannot wait until 2024.