John Mahama Quotes

This election is about the economy, stupid. It is not about all those other useless things about who built how many compost plants

As we go into another election, there is often a general sense of apprehension that something will go wrong. As a member of your church, I can assure you and pledge that I am a person of peace, and if there is any violence, it won’t come from me. I will do everything to ensure that Ghana remains peaceful.

Certainly, one thing we can’t run away from is that, he Nkrumah is the founder of our nation. He led the independence struggle. Many people contributed and it happens; in Christianity, there is John the Baptist, there are all the apostles, but who is the champion of Christianity, Jesus Christ.

I have, this morning, received a congratulatory call from my brother Dr @MBawumia, following my emphatic victory in Saturday's election. Thank you, Ghana.

Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of – actually in Africa – we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

I’m clear in my mind what has to be done to halt increase in prices of food.

Today's exercise between the outgoing president, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and I feels a bit like déjà vu. That is because eight years ago to this day, on January 7, 2017, we shared this same space and performed this same transitional exercise. At the time, I was the outgoing president, having served one term, and he was the incoming president, having been given a mandate by the people of Ghana to lead this great nation of ours. He and I both understood on that day, as I'm sure we do today, that it is the people of Ghana that we are elected to serve.

As I stated during my JohnMahamaLive virtual event some weeks ago, extraordinary times require extraordinary interventions for exceptional results. Ghana is experiencing extraordinary hardships, and the youth are also choking under the yoke of these hardships.

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

I have seen more demonstrations and strikes in my first two years. I don't think it can get worse. It is said that when you kill a goat and you frighten it with a knife, it doesn't fear the knife because it is dead already.

I'm affirming my commitment to root out the canker of corruption. One of our tools to combat corruption, and make it a high-risk endeavor for any person, Operation Recover All the Loot, will investigate, and prosecute the persons involved in corruption, using both local and foreign expertise to achieve this objective

We must flip the coin from competition to cooperation, we need cooperation to build a better Ghana and NDC. I am, therefore calling for cooperation among all elected parliamentary candidates and your aspirants and supporters

We are enjoying in Africa what I call the democracy dividend. The progress we are seeing, economic development are all part of the dividend of good governance, respect for human rights, rule of law.

You must let others praise you instead of praising yourself

We've requested further discussions with the IMF, as we were not part of the negotiations for this programme. We need to ensure that we are all aligned in terms of its implementation,