{"id":109534,"date":"2026-01-02T13:05:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=109534"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:05:42","slug":"presidents-new-year-message-lacked-hope-and-sincerity-npps-senyo-amekplenu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=109534","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s New Year message lacked hope and sincerity \u2013 NPP\u2019s Senyo Amekplenu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A member of the Communication Team of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Senyo Amekplenu, has criticised President John Mahama\u2019s New Year message, describing it as lacking sincerity, hope, and assurance for Ghanaians.<\/p>\n

Speaking on JoyNews\u2019<\/strong> AM Show<\/em> on Friday, January 2, Mr Amekplenu said the President\u2019s address left him deeply disappointed, particularly as a young Ghanaian.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the issue of the New Year message, in fact, I wept yesterday in the evening after listening to the President. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wept as a young person in this country. I wept in the sense that I felt that there was no sincerity and hope in the President\u2019s message,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to him, the address failed to offer clear reassurance to citizens and relied heavily on what he described as empty claims of achievement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no assurance in the President\u2019s message. They are good at mentioning, we\u2019ve reduced this, we\u2019ve reduced that, we\u2019ve done this. It\u2019s just shambolic and lacks hope,\u201d Mr Amekplenu stated.<\/p>\n

He further accused the President of engaging in what he termed \u201cpseudologia fantastica\u201d, arguing that governance should not be built on deception or selective truth-telling.<\/p>\n

\u201cI keep repeating that governance cannot be resorted to pseudologia fantastica, where you want to choose where to lie. Governance cannot resort to fantasies and deceptions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Amekplenu also rejected the President\u2019s \u201creset\u201d narrative, describing it as misleading and dishonest.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn it, he said that whether you voted for the NDC, whether you voted for me or not, we are all Ghanaians. The reset is for all of us. <\/p>\n

\u201cI disagree with the President, because I think that this whole mantra of reset is a scam or a fraud business,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n

He questioned the inclusiveness of the President\u2019s message, insisting that the reset agenda does not reflect the lived realities of many Ghanaians.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot say that you are resetting this country and be doing the usual rhetoric that we know. I feel that the entire so-called reset mantra is a scam and a fraud, in the sense that if the President claims that the reset is for all of us, where do other members of the Ghanaians fall?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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