A New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications team member, Benjamin Gyewu-Appiah, commonly known as Benghazi, has levelled shocking allegations against Ato Forson and Haruna Iddrisu.
According to Benghazi, the Finance Minister, Dr Ato Forson, and the Minister of Education, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, deliberately failed WASSCE students.
The NPP’s communication team member boldly alleged that the two failed the 2025 WASSCE candidates due to the ruling government’s No Fees Stress Policy for first-year University students.
Benghazi is quoted by EDHUB, a social media news page, to have said, “Finance Minister Dr Ato Forson and Minister of Education, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, deliberately failed WASSCE students because of the No Fees Stress Policy.”
Speaking in an interview, he alleged, “Ato Forson and Ministry of Education monitored the statistics and realized the students going to university from SHS had quadrupled. So, if they pass all those children, it means government won’t get money to pay for the free fees for first-year students, so they deliberately failed the children”.
“They realised the government cannot pay for the no-fees stress, they cannot fund it,” he added.
The NPP’s communicator’s comments have sparked debate on social media, with netizens saying, “Ah no be this guy wey he say if Mahama win the elections make them pour petrol on am then burn am?”.
“A very wild allegation. So when students refuse to learn and pass but rather stick to doing tic tac videos when they are supposed to learn, we do politics with it eii”, a netizen added.
An X user added, “The Budget quoted 537 million Cedis for No-Fees-Stress. 200k Students expected to receive their No-Fees-Stress Reimbursement so how can failing to blamed on No-Fees-Stress Policy”
One more netizen alleged, “They did the same thing to Nursing Students in 2013, failed almost 50 per cent during their licensure exams. It’s a deliberate attempt to reduce the numbers going into upstream education”
Another netizen stated, “Same way Addo Dee was also buying past questions for students to pass just to gain votes from parents by making them believe Free SHS was working”.
“Honestly, where does the New Patriotic Party recruit such communicators. It’s really serious how mediocre characters are the lead communicators of the opposition party”, one more X user added.
His comments follow the 2025 WASSCE result being released by WAEC, which revealed 220,008 out of 461,736 failed Core Mathematics, marking the worst performance in the subject in seven years.
Also, “only 48.73% of candidates attained grades A1 to C6 in 2025. This represents a massive collapse from the 66.86% achieved in 2024. A total of 209,068 candidates passed with A1-C6, but 114,872 candidates (26.77%) failed the subject outright with an F9 grade.
Additionally, 131,097 students (30.27%) failed English Language, 161,606 students (39.87%) failed Integrated Science, and 196727 students (44%) failed Social Studies.
A total of 1,021 schools registered candidates for the examination, representing a slight 0.24% increase over 2024, while 5,821 candidates (1.26%) were absent”.
Meanwhile, the University of Ghana (UG) Pro Vice Chancellor, Prof. Gordon Awandare, has said the institution’s admission requirements and cut-offs remain firm despite the poor performance of many candidates in the 2025 WASSCE.
According to Prof Awandare, the University of Ghana has already received WAEC results from students who purchased awaiting results forms.
He urged students who will not meet the cut-off points to consider re-sitting the WASSCE, adding that the admission requirements are firm to uphold academic standards.
Speaking to Citi News on Tuesday, December 2, UG’s Pro Vice Chancellor, Prof. Gordon Awandare, stated, “At the University of Ghana, every year, we have many more students making the cut off but not getting the opportunity to be admitted because of the limited number of spaces.
“So, it is not likely that we will need to move the cut-off to get sufficient numbers for each programme. We will advise that if they really want to come to Legon, they should re-sit some of the papers and improve their aggregates and try again,” he stated.
Watch the video below:
“Finance Minister Dr. Ato Forson and Minister of Education, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, deliberately failed WASSCE students because of the No Fees Stress Policy.” – NPP Communications Team member Benjamin Gyewu-Appiah (Benghazi) pic.twitter.com/LYVyYMrfa1
— EDHUB🌍ℹ (@eddie_wrt) December 2, 2025