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President John Dramani Mahama is in his mocking elements after launching a series of derisive attacks on the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

The president in an address to party members in Ho, Volta Region during his ‘Changing Lives, Transforming Ghana tour’ ridiculed his fiercest political rivals by even labeling their acting National Chairman as ‘Opana’ and a recent press conference he addressed as "rabbit" that does not need his attention.

At a rally in the Volta Region to round off his campaign to be retained as presidential candidate ahead of the governing party's primary Saturday, the president did not fail to ridicule the opposition party which has made the headlines for all the bad reasons in recent times.

Dismissing claims that his government has misused the various loans it has acquired since it assumed power, President Mahama implicitly suggested Members of Parliament sleep in the House and allow loans to be approved without proper scrutiny. 

“You say we haven’t used the loans for anything and that we are misusing monies, meanwhile every loan we take is taken through parliament for approval so what have they been doing, have they been sleeping?

“They approve the loans in parliament, there is no single loan we have taken without taking it through parliament, they should come and tell us what they have been doing," he said.

His recent attack on the NPP becomes the second time in a week that he has mounted a platform to unleash salvos on the party.

One Wednesday, the opposition NPP organized a press conference chaired by their acting National Chairman, Freddie Blay to inform President Mahama that he can’t escape from criticism after failing to deliver on the mandate for which he was voted into office.

In responding to the press conference, President Mahama stated that “I don’t intend to respond to that press conference. In Accra I said that when you are a hunter and you go to the forest to hunt for elephant, you don’t stop by the way to shoot at rabbits.

"The press conference is a rabbit press conference and I don’t have time to shoot at rabbits because I am going to hunt an elephant”.

To rub more salts in their wounds the president went on to state that  “on the day ‘Opana’ was doing his press conference to respond to me, somebody too was doing a press conference accusing them and saying he is going to court.

"This one says I am acting chairman of the party, this one says I am chairman of the party. I thought ‘Opana’ would rather pay attention to the competence of uniting his party than addressing press conferences at him,” he told the crowd.