PRO-opposition group, NPP Network in Gonjaland, has taken President John Dramani Mahama to the cleaners, describing him as a divisive leader whose actions are clearly dividing the people of the three Northern regions.
They do not understand why the President deliberately neglected the people of Gonjaland in his recent “wrecked train of 'Accounting to The People Tour'” to the Northern region “which embarrassingly saw only students who were coerced to come out and cheer him.”
The group at a press conference addressed by Fredrick Tahiru, National Communications Director, expressed their utter disappointment at how their own blood could resort to divide and rule antics, an unfortunate development they said has the potential to pitch one tribe against the other in the northern part of the country.
According to the group, the Northern Region has 31 political constituencies and 26 administrative districts, but sadly the President visited about 15 districts, wondering why the he refused visit any of the 8 political constituencies in Gonjaland to account for his stewardship.
The NPP group said the President's failure to visit any of the political constituencies in Gonjaland can only be translated to mean he did not do anything for the people in that area and, therefore, had nothing to account for.
They enquired: “Could it also be said that the president does not respect us, the electorates in Gonjaland and therefore did not deem it fit or prudent to visit and account to us?'’
"The president’s ineptitude views have left him with no legacy and convincing political message and for that matter, he is appealing to northerners to vote for him because he is one of us in the midst of poverty and deprivation," the group added.
According to the group, the president’s failure to include any of the administrative districts in Gonjaland in his so-called tour of the Northern Region was not only arbitrary waste of state resources aimed at deceiving the people “but also a senseless ploy, calculated at bathing the chiefs and people of Gonjaland with disrespect and naked propaganda.”
They added, “the presence of the President again, was yet another opportunity for him to rubble rouse and engage in unclothed rhetoric rather than accounting to the people. He was instead engaged in what can at best be described as accounting to himself and party cronies.”
"Indeed, we are not knocked down at all by the president’s deliberate disrespectful decision to embarrass the chiefs and people of his native land. This is not the first time that Gonjalanders have been disrespected and politically pushed around by H.E John Mahama," they group noted.
They pointed out that during the annual Gonjaland Youth Association Meeting which was held in Kpembe, President Mahama shunned the function and was accosted somewhere in the Volta Region attending church service, adding that the President snubbed the people of Yapei/Kusawgu because there is nothing to account for in a district where animals and human beings are in a competition for drinking water.
They said the President had done nothing even his own his own backyard, Bole, which would have pushed him to the area.
“There is nothing concrete to be pinpointed as a would-be legacy when John Dramani Mahama joins the club or league of ex-presidents on 7th January, 2017. We can confidently state without any fear of contradiction that, H.E President John Mahama was advised to shift the venue for his mother's funeral from Bole to Accra to avoid the whole exercise serving as an incubator of disgrace and embarrassment because some African Presidents were billed to attend,” the group pointed out.
The group further claimed that President Mahama shifted the final funeral rites of his mother to Accra just because he did not want his colleague heads of states to find out how he had neglected his own people in Bole\Bamboi.
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