Former president John Dramani Mahama has responded to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s pronouncement that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will remain in opposition for a long time.

According to Mr. Mahama, President Akufo-Addo cannot determine the fate of the NDC as only God chooses leaders.

It comes after the President told chiefs and people of Somanya on his tour to the area that the NDC will keep long in opposition because Ghanaians will not let them to win power again to come and “create, loot and share”.

“These people [NDC] are looking at a long period in opposition,” the President said.

But addressing delegates of the NDC at Bekwai during the second phase of his Ashanti Regional campaign tour, Mr Mahama, on Monday, 26 November 2018 said God is bigger than everybody including Nana Akufo-Addo while expressing optimism that God will grant the NDC victory in the 2020 elections.

“When we started criticizing Akufo-Addo’s government, he told us that he will not respond to presidential aspirants. But now we can all witness that he is listening to us small small. I heard President Akufo-Addo saying that NDC will rot in opposition. Only God can say that not Akufo-Addo. NDC will bounce back and take Ghanaians to the promise land,” Mahama said.

The former president said as a way of responding to the NDC, the Akufo-Addo government has begun the vetting of small-scale miners to enable them to resume work.

He, however, urged the government to expedite action on the vetting process to enable the miners to go back to work.

Mr Mahama also bemoaned the decision by the government to, according to him, abandon the Bekwai Hospital, which, he said was started by the NDC government with funding for its completion.