President-elect John Mahama has stated that his government will take lessons from the monumental loss of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the recent presidential election.

In his thanksgiving speech at the Assemblies of God Ringway Gospel Center in Accra on December 15, 2024, Mahama emphasized that his victory signifies that power belongs to the people, not politicians.

According to Mahama, Ghanaians are prepared to hold his government accountable and ensure it faces the same fate if he fails in his second term as President.

“And so just as our colleagues in the NPP might be feeling very pained by their loss, it should serve as a lesson to those of us coming to government that the same stick that Takyi has been beaten with, the Ghanaian people are reserving it for Baah,” Mahama stated.

He added, “So, God has made us know that power belongs to the people, but when they have reached their limit, they will show you that power belongs to them and that it is God who has given that power.”

The President-elect also expressed concern about how the political class in Ghana has abused the power given to them by the electorate.

John Mahama noted that arrogance and selfish interests have become the garment of politicians, forgetting that they wield no power without the people.

“We’ve practiced democracy since 1992. With time, the political elites including myself whom God has given the opportunity to lead this country, we have grown in arrogance and selfishness and we have believed that the power that we wielded over the people belonged to us ourselves and did not recognize that it was God who gave it to us temporarily,” John Mahama said.