Minority describes 2025 budget as misleading document designed to tarnish NPP image

Former Finance Minister Mohammed Amin Adam has criticised the 2025 Budget Statement and Economic Policy, calling it a deceptive document intended to destroy the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) reputation.

Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, 13 March, Amin Adam stated that the data supplied by the current Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, were incorrect and were purposefully designed to cast the NPP government in a negative light.

During the 2025 Budget Statement and Economic Policy presentation, the finance minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, said that economic challenges inherited by the new administration remain dire.

Presenting the government’s 2025 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to Parliament, on Tuesday, 11 March, Forson highlighted the economic challenges inherited by the new administration, emphasising that the country’s financial situation remains dire.

However, Amin Adam strongly refuted these claims, saying “The 2025 budget was a hatchet job going to be the vehicle for confirming what had been perfectly rehearsed to crown the narrate by putting data to unfounded claims and our intelligence has been confirmed that the Finance Minister did a hatchet job.”

“The government churned out fiscal deficit on commitment basis of 7.6 percent of GDP and primary deficit of 3.6 percent of GDP and this will imply that the NPP mismanaged the fiscals

“In fact an economy with such strong revenue performance and expenditure controls as we have seen from the data that the Minister presented, cannot produce the kind of elevated fiscal outturns the Minister announced, we see a lot of contradictions.”