Deputy Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress [NDC] Kweku Boahen has confidently declared that President John Dramani Mahama’s good looks and competence makes him the best candidate to occupy the country’s presidential seat for the next four years.
According to him, Ghanaians would definitely not vote for any political party whose candidate’s qualities pales in comparison to that of President Mahama.
He further expressed optimism that the NDC’s agenda to garner more votes in the opposition party’s strongholds is still on course.
“…our votes (this year) in the Eastern and Ashanti Regions, where members of the New Patriotic Party [NPP] claim are their strong holds, would move up by greater margins more than we have polled in the past years,” he said.
Commenting on the brouhaha over the Electoral Commission (EC’s) filing fees on UTV’s “Adekye Nsroma” programme, Kweku Boahen stressed that “persons who agitate against Electoral Commission [EC]’s filing fees are those who want to derail the commission’s work, which shouldn’t be so because filing fees paid by aspirants in both presidential and parliamentary primaries at the inter-party level is not much different from that of the EC. We must give the EC the peace of mind to effectively go about their job”.
The EC has come under heavy criticism for some of the demands it is making from the presidential and the parliamentary candidates for the December general election.
After an Inter Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting on Thursday September 8, the EC announced that parliamentary candidates will have to file their nomination at a fee of GHC10,000 while presidential candidates are expected to pay GHC50,000.
However, the decision to charge high filing fees appears to have caught fire as some of the political parties have gone to court to place an injunction on the process.
The Convention People’s Party (CPP), the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), the People’s National Convention (PNC) and a host of other political parties, have accused the EC of using the price hikes as a means to stifle democracy; an assertion the EC has vehemently refuted.
But Kweku Boahen believes there is nothing wrong with the new filing fees introduced by the electoral body and told Lawyer Tweneboah Koduah, host of the show that “I won’t be surprised some candidates go for the forms just for showmanship or business purposes known to them alone.”
However, his co-panelist on the show, Member of Parliament [MP] for Fanteakwa South in the Eastern Region, Hon. Kofi Okyere Agyekum, dismissed his assertions on President Mahama standing tall over the other presidential candidates saying “Mahama would lose this year’s election massively due to his illogical manoeuvres as a bad driver”.
Source: Semiheva Elizabeth
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Eeeiii ndc are short of message. Look at Nana at his age with no wrinkles that is what in the civilized world calls beauty, not a drunkard face looking man. The point is who told these ndc foooools John mahama is good looking?this donkey face with gorilla features? Good looking is eating good, not drinking and smoking and maintaining a healthy life style. Look at how healthy and energetic Nana looks at the EC's office, it shows who insult this man are indeed primitive. This Kwaku Boahene talks like in just came out from a cave and I can see the lots of saliva he spits on people around him. Such idi*ts speak for government. Is Ghana's seat of Government Beauty Contest or Brain work?John Mahama is Damn us*less president with no ideas, no vision and nothing to govern but because we are in the third world, we don't understand nothing so don't know how electing a fo*l, visionless and an immature leader affects us. I can't understand why Ghanaians could leave out good, intelligent, visionary, wisdom,sensible and matured leaders for fo*ls,idi*ts,stup*d,jokers,thi*ves,insensit*ve,wicked and callous people to mismanage their lives why?Send them away and bring in respectable people with wisdom.
What is attractiveness about this pu ffy face.
kwaseaaaaaakwa. when you were living in your in-laws room in 2008, you were lamenting about GHC3.6 petrol price. Now you live in your own mansion after 7 years so you can confidently say good looks can win electios eh? you arev the most stupiiiiiid literate i have ever met. Meanwhile have you finished paying the Vehicle you received from MASLOC?
Hajia, give me wakye ghc5 , fish Ghc10 807048, Gari 50p, welle Ghc 5. Thank u. The president's attractiveness will pay u.
looks good my tooth look at who is saying this, their are better people looking great, if you we can't eat looking good or what the President wear, give us better than this .......our leaders
***barred word*** TALK FROM INCOMPETENT MINISTER WE NEED SOMEBODY WHO CAN SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS NOT THE APPEARANCE .
Nsem fu kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
WOOOW THATS OUR MAN YOU WINING I CAN SEE VICTORY ALL OVER YOU. INSHA ALLAH.
Woaaa look, Mahama and Nana Addo, who looks like a drunkard? None of them, the main reason that you prefer one of them should not make you go that lane.
JDM FOR 2016 ALL HATERS WILL CRY