Deputy Director of Communications of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ernest Owusu-Bempah says former President John Mahama performed poorly in managing the country.

In a statement, he said Ghanaians are now beyond debating whether Mr Mahama's comeback bid has merit.

"Indeed, the great Greek philosopher Aristotle was right when remarked that 'it is not possible to rule well without having been ruled.'

"This Aristotle theory seems to have a perfect correlation with the antics of former President Mahama, who having failed to rule Ghana well when he had the opportunity is now engaging in evil machinations and inferior tactics to stage a comeback.

"Mahama, once in a casual political conversation remarked that Ghanaians have a short memory, and as such, he feels his politics and political memory has faded.

"This is a man who had it all - political power and mandate, and he squandered it. We all know how it all ended - He was thrown out of office in the wake of massive corruption and 'Dumsor Economy.'

"In actual fact, Mahama was indescribably messy the last time he was at the Presidency. He broke the pres­id­en­tial code and was simply embarrassing at the job," Owusu Bempah said in a statement reacting to the campaign of John Mahama to be elected flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

"Truly," he added "Mahama was so tired on the job, and was so inadequate, so unpleasant and so very shabby. And yet he feels like staging a comeback by deploying inferior tactics against the very office he is seeking to come back to.

"The Mahama phenomenon and the desperation of the NDC ought to be confronted and the likes of me would rather focus on this than anything else."

He further stated that from the day he was voted out of office in 2016 through to his return as presidential candidate in the run-up to 2020 and in recent times, Mr Mahama has demonstrated repeatedly that he lacks the temperament, knowledge, steadiness and honesty that Ghana needs from its presidents.

"Whether through indifference or ignorance, Mahama has betrayed fundamental commitments made by all presidents since the dawn of the fourth Republic. He has stirred bigotry and ethnic-based political sentiments in ways that can’t be erased by any possible means," the statement said