The governing National Democratic Congress has fallen out of favour with the electorate in the Central Region, the home region of the late President John Mills, following what the people say is the deliberate attempt by President John Mahama to obliterate the legacy of the man whose mysterious death paved the way for him to take charge of the presidency.
Even though President Mahama had said in 2008 that a government’s achievement is not measured in terms of the amount infrastructural projects carried out, he and his apologists are now touting infrastructural development as the major achievement of the NDC government, and using that as the basis to seek re-election.
Interestingly, however, and as if seeking to obliterate the memory of the late President Mills, President Mahama and his apologists have been creating the impression that all the projects were undertaken in the last four years, with virtually no credit to the late President Mills.
Information available to the Daily Statesman indicates that this has incurred the wrath of many people in the Central Region who see the development as an obvious disrespect for the memory the late president.
What appears to have broken the carmel’s back is the the extent to which President Mahama and his close allies have virtually managed to reduce the Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, also from the region, to ‘a nobody’ in the scheme of affairs of the government.
Among the things that annoy the people most is seeing President Mahama’s campaign billboards with his pictures and that of his wife, Lordina Mahama, instead of his vice.
It is an open secret that the president’s wife and his brother, Ibrahim Mahama, are regarded far above Vice President Amissah-Arthur when it comes to taking vital decisions at the presidency.
Checks done by the paper show that majority of the people in the Central Region are now convicned that the selection of Paa Kwesi Amissah-Authur to partner President Mahama was only a ploy to get their electoral support.
They have therefore vowed to teach the president a bitter lesson at the December 7 polls, to send the strongest signal that they cannot be deceived all the time.
New opinion polls conducted by three different bodies show that not only is the New Patriotic Party and its presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, winning the December 7 election in the first round, but also put Nana Addo ahead of President Mahama in the Central region.
Source: The Statesman
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@JONATHA.N , LAGOS......I beg you waa, this English does not belong to the original JONATHAN LAGOS. please come again
well i hope they will wake up from their slumber on dec 7 and vote against this heartless and insensitive govt. i have always said that i pity amissah-arthur bcos i dey are just using him. he has absolutely no relevance to them but for the votes from the central region. mahama's wife is actually the vice president and his vice presidential candidate for this year's election. she appears on most of the bill boards than amissah-arthur yet he doesnt notice it. i feel sometimes that he has been charmed. well that spell cast on him will soon be over after dec 7. let us vote for change.
jonathan lagos is on other sites saying he wants to sukkkk mahama's genitals. Look at him here saying something only an edddddiot will say. What a fuuulllll. I hope he is not a ghanaian voter.
mahama asked northerners to vote on tribal lines for him. Central region should think twice before voting for him based on his own logic. Don't forget that in addition to his tribalism, he is brutally incompetent and hopelessly corrupt. I am sure we should all sack him from office.
The whole Ghana is waiting to see how the central region votes on Dec 7. With the treatment Mr. Mahama and the government have given to ex-president Mills and now Mr. Amisah Arthur it tells how they regard the region. Food for thought
E.vi.l John Mahama killed Prof. Mills because he was being investigated for cor.r.uption by Prof Mills in the purchase of aircraft from Brazil. Mahama is a t.h.i.e.f and c0rrupt.... Don't vote for this sweet talking and do-nothing president.
The Daily Statesman news papper is good to be used from the back but not for reading to gain knowledge since there is nothing reasonable to relay on.
EVEN IF ALL THE REGION VOTES AGAINST US WE WILL WIN, IS CENTRAL REGION THE ONLY REGION IN GHANA. TWIAAAA. WE DONT WANT THEIR VOTES ANYMORE, APUU WHO ARE THEY
STATEMAN YOU ARE DAY DREAMING.WE THE CENTRAL REGION CAN READ THROUGH THE LINES.7TH DEC WILL CONFIRM OR DENY YOUR ALLEGATION PERIOD.NO WAY FOR NPP. CONTINUE HUMBLE GENTLE JM, SPEED ON.
Nana Nketsia you are deceiving your soul. We in the Central Region will vote against JM in all ways.