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Even though there are vivid evidence of President John Dramani Mahama’s developmental projects across the country, NPP’s Anthony Abayifa Karbo says the president has done absolutely nothing with his presidency – specifically for his own natives.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Lawra in the Upper West Region explained that, the president who is a native from the northern part of the country has “deliberately” neglected the people of the region.

According to him, NPP’s flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has rather proven to have the people of the northern region at heart and has promised to develop the region should he be voted into power.

“The NPP has made commitment to some projects in the region should Nana Addo is voted in to power. The projects will take off as soon as Nana Addo is elected president. These same projects have been abandoned by President Mahama and his government,” he said. 

Karbo was responding to President Mahama’s assertion that, he feels sorry for Northerners calling for change.

According to the president, the opposition New Patriotic Party has no regard for northerners “Sometimes I feel sad when I see some of our Northern brothers running around and also doing this (the change sign), they will use you and dump you.”

Addressing a rally at Lawra in the Upper West region, where he is currently campaigning ahead of the December 7 polls, President Mahama said the party's [NPP] disregard for Northerners was exposed when the late Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama had to contest 16 other people in an effort to succeed his boss, former President John Kufuor in the 2007 presidential primaries of the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition.

But NPP’s Lawra parliamentary aspirant, Karbo says the President is rather cruel to Northerners – “What has he [President Mahama] done with this presidency for Northerners? If not corruption, what has he done?”