{"id":496439,"date":"2026-02-28T23:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496439\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:16:08","slug":"franklin-cudjoe-slams-npp-over-economic-record-rejects-revisionist-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496439\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Cudjoe slams NPP over economic record, rejects \u2018revisionist\u2019 narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Franklin-Cudjoe-slams-NPP-over-economic-record-rejects-revisionist-narrative-2023732?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/52930504.295.jpg\" alt=\"Franklin Cudjoe is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMANI Africa\" title=\"Franklin Cudjoe is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMANI Africa\" width=\"295\" height=\"180\" \/> <\/a>Franklin Cudjoe is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMANI Africa<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The Cheif Executive Officer IMANI Africa, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3709\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3709\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3709\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Franklin Cudjoe<\/a> has accused the New Patriotic Party of misleading the public about its stewardship of the Ghanaian economy.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Saturday February 28, 2026, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3709\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3709\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3709\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Franklin Cudjoe<\/a> attributed recent signs of economic stabilisation to what he described as firm fiscal discipline by the current government, while laying blame for Ghana\u2019s economic crisis at the doorstep of the previous NPP administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that reckless borrowing has been reduced to a significant minimum, crony mobilisation fees have stopped, and the public sector is no longer bloated with incompetence, inflation is back to single digits, lending rates are down, and the cedi is stronger,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/The-economy-stupid-is-not-an-insult-Franklin-Cudjoe-defends-Mahama-1958292\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;The economy, stupid&#8217; is not an insult&#8217; &#8211; <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3709\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3709\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3709\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Franklin Cudjoe<\/a> &#8216;defends&#8217; Mahama<\/p>\n<p>He claimed the cedi had appreciated by 40.7 percent against the US dollar, 30.9 percent against the British pound, and 24 percent against the euro, arguing that these gains reflected improved economic management rather than political coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>He rejected attempts by NPP figures and sympathisers to downplay the party\u2019s record in government, accusing them of what he called political \u2018make-believe.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho misses 54 per cent interest rates, pickpocketing investments, and a debt iceberg capable of sinking the Titanic? Massa, stop recruiting innocent election mourners into your political stunts school and start offering real, sensibly researched alternatives,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Cudjoe further accused the NPP of overseeing wasteful spending, poorly conceived projects, and widespread corruption, which he said contributed to Ghana\u2019s loss of access to international capital markets and its descent into junk credit status.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full post below<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Who is deceiving this dude? Jesus!! Who misses 54% interest rate? Pickpocketing investments, sinking $58m into an aimless blackhole and destroying close to $500m worth of properties for it, a debt iceberg that could sink the titanic, a litany of petty thievery and mega corruption\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Franklin CUDJOE (@lordcudjoe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lordcudjoe\/status\/2027636945690509457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 28, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>MRA\/EB<\/p>\n<p>Watch NPP MPs in all-black as President Mahama delivers 2026 SONA<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Franklin Cudjoe is the Chief Executive Officer of the IMANI Africa The Cheif Executive Officer IMANI Africa, Franklin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-496439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}