There is nothing wrong if President John Mahama decides to give out gifts on his campaign tour, the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Ade Coker has said.
According to him, those criticising President Mahama for supposedly giving out money at Abossey Okai in Accra last week were being “hypocritical” since there was absolutely nothing wrong with that.
“If I were to advice the President, I will tell him to go ahead…our culture allows us to give out alms… Is the President a super human being? Mr Coker queried in a radio discussion programme on Accra based Onua FM on Friday morning.
According to him, the president on daily basis gives out alms and that when he goes to palaces of chiefs, he gives out gifts in the form of drinks.
“Recently he gave the Gonja chief a vehicle and the chief has admitted to that…so what is wrong with that, assuming he did that,” he said.
He said his brothers in the other side [NPP] recently shared koko [porridge] and waakye [beans and rice] and there was nothing absolutely wrong with it.
“They even went to do hairdressing, all in the name of winning votes,” he said.
“Do you know what is called doctoring of tapes” and suggested the video doing the rounds could have been doctored.
“I followed the President and did not see him sharing money. Let’s assume he did that, could he have shared money for all the people who were there,” Mr Coker asked.
A video doing the rounds on social media shows President Mahama handing out something to some people during a campaign tour of Abossey Okai last week.
Some discussions have suggested that the President was “buying votes” by that act but aides to the President have explained that the President only handed out money to a child who was selling eggs and the eggs had been trampled upon following attempts by surging supporters who wanted to catch a glimpse of the President.
The girl was said to be crying since the eggs she was selling in traffic had been pushed down.
President Mahama, upon realising what had happened, was said to have singled the girl out and gave her GH¢50 to compensate for the loss.
Source: Daily Graphic
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Look at Ade Coker. You go to ridiculous lengths to justify the act as giving out alms; it's our culture; blablabla; then you turn around to tell us the tape was doctored, BECAUSE YOU KNOW FULL WELL IT WAS MORALLY WRONG! It now makes sense why someone like Ambassador Kanda refused to be appointed chief of Staff; he doesn't have the time and decency to be defending these actions like the Ford saga!
A president is not required to hand out money on campaign tour if you don't know primitive people, don't drag as all into your lifestyles. What is wrong is wrong and we don't have to condone with it by twisting and turning around. Imagine any of the western world leaders doing that? They even don't handle cash, this is primitive and is sending us further backwards. Rawlings would never have done that, I now understand very much why he didn't endorse this guy but went all out to campaign for Atta Mills because he wouldn't do such an uncivil behaviour like that. Compassion is good policies for the people to take advantage and move on not on a campaign trail and seeing somebody weeping, at least he could have asked his aid to take care of that but because of votes he had to show off. Never compare Nkrumah of the '50s-'60s to this man because he was enlightened,matured and a show man not this type of primitive thing. Ade Coker is a Nigerian 419 man so things like this is not new and anything to him, they don't even care to sh*t on the street when people are passing so do I have to waste my time on him? In Ghanaian culture this is unacceptable our leaders especially chiefs don't carry cash with them, somebody has to. When Dr Asemfoforo was beating on a meet the people function, president Kuffuor didn't give him money right away to see a doctor but rather advised for him to see a doctor and called him to see him in his office that's maturity. An aid could have done that for the ndc president. I call him so because he came because of ndc and he only think of ndc his family, friends and cronies. He releases ndc criminals and allow his BNI bulldogs to arrest people who have different views about him. Did president Kuffuor ever sent for an ndc affiliated journalist to be arrested when they were vilifying, denigrating and saying all sorts of no*sense about that nobleman respected worldwide. President Kuffuor would never had been humiliated by the Scotland parliament if he were to be in power but look at where they put John mahama and his delegation, at the gallery. GIVE ME A BREAK.GHANA NEEDS A REAL LEADER NOT JOKERS.
Massa; how naive and ***barred word*** can you be ; the subject matter has nothing to do with God neither has it got anything to do with Nana Addo besides this 'this subjective word used -compassinate heart' has nothing to do with this full hardy initiative by this leper thiff from the north called Jon Mahama ; a womaniser from a family of womanisers whose aim are soly to smell the pants of any womn they come across ; a man who will sleep with a female pig in skirt and a uless President since Kwame Nkrumah !!!!!!!!!!; do you understand the sorry pictures and implications of such action to our lenders including the IMF ;Banks and the World Bank ; this initiative can easily be mis-interpretated in many forms besides these lenders will be laughing at us like mad !!!!!!; Jon Mahama as was said ; should have utilised the services of his body guards and election campaign team who were with him to discharge such compensatory duties ; every head of state does that because they come across many sad situations in their counterires and that why it befits Jon Mahama should have used our resources to create jobs for the youth ; Presidents do not give cash in public but detail their ADC's to do that or request the persons to come to the flagtaff house for such compensatory initiative; WHY ARE NDC operatives including Jon Mahama so stooooopid by disgracing us in Ghana ;the worse part is that the ediotic full Jon Mahama goes in front of the UN lies to them and starts castigating the very people he goes to borrow money from and expects them to lend him cash to throw about in public ; WHAT DID GHANA DO AS A NATION TO DESERVE SUCH BUNCH OF SAW DUST HEADED KRIMINALS !!!!!!!!!!!
FOR THE NPP EVERYTHING IS WRONG ABOUT IT. YET THEIR FLAG BEARER WAS ASKING GOD TO GIVE HIM A COMPASSIONATE HEART.