The Deputy Minority Leader, Patricia Appiagyei, has stated that President John Dramani Mahama’s State of the Nation Address, delivered in Parliament on Thursday, February 27, failed to offer the hope Ghanaians were expecting.

She argued that the address did not accurately reflect the true state of the economy, as the President focused more on lamenting rather than addressing the issues he was elected to resolve.

“I don’t think there’s hope for anyone because all I heard were lamentations. If you’re lamenting, you’ve been given the responsibility, and you claim to have received a resounding victory—then fix it. What we expect are the plans to fix it,” she said during an interview on TV3.

Miss Appiagyei, the Member of Parliament for Asokwa in the Ashanti Region, criticized the President's address for being filled with empty promises and offering nothing new.

She argued that the true state of the nation, which President Mahama should have presented, involved issues such as lawlessness, job losses, and insecurity.

“The true state of the nation is not what the President delivered today. If we are talking about 50 days in office, the real state of the government involves lawlessness, the revocation of employment, and insecurity,” she said.

“What we also expected was for the President to present something that would make everyone say, ‘wow,’ but instead, it’s just business as usual. There was nothing significantly new in what the President said,” Appiagyei remarked.