Over the weekend, while campaigning in the Upper West Region, the President of Ghana and leader of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), His Excellency John Dramani Mahama opted to use very ethnocentric and divisive campaign language.
The President, while addressing party supporters in Lawra as part of his campaign tour of the Region, made comments to suggest that the New Patroitic Party (NPP) only “uses northerners” to win power and “dump” them afterwards.
The President alleged that if vice-presidential candidate of the NPP Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia decides to contest as presidential candidate in the NPP, he is likely to be rejected by the party.
He then went on to cite the NPP presidential race in 2008 in which 16 other candidates contested the then vice-president of the erstwhile President Kuffour administration, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, for the Presidential candidacy of the party.
President Mahama also allged that unlike the NPP, the NDC gives everyone the chance to ascend to the high office including northerners and it is that opportunity in the NDC that has made it possible for him to become president after the demise of the late President, John Evans Atta Mills.
The MFWA considers the comments of President Mahama highly divisive and unfortunate and condemns same in no uncertain terms. As a leader of the country, President Mahama is expected to act in ways that will unite rather than divide the people of this country.
The MFWA therefore calls on the President to publicly apologise for his comments. We take this opportunity to urge other political figures to avoid the use of hate speech, ethnocentric and divisive comments in their political campaigns.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Why are people surprised that Mahama is talking nonsensical tribal ***barred word***???He is like the proverbial bird whop is about to desert its nest; it always leaves droppings(sh.t)in the nest because it will never return to the nest again!!! AND MAHAMA WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT AGAIN; TOO DEVISIVE, TRIBALISTIC AND A CONMAN!!!!!
Say it all Ghanaians will see hw evil n disastrous dis so caller NPP is..change is a must
WHAT A DISAPPOINTED MAN, THE MAN IS NOW FRUSTRATED AND DOESN'T KNOWN WTAT TO DO. I THINK THE WIFE NEED TO ADVICE THIS FRUSTRATED HUSBAND. ALL SHOULD VOTE AGAINST HIM.
POLITRICKS IS DIRTY BUT I WILL TAKE NDC ANYTIME OVER A BLATANTLY AKAN PARTY LIKE NPP, DESPERATE FOR POWER AND PUTTING NDC DOWN TO RAISE THEMSELVES UP. I WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO RESPECT THEM IF THEY HAD SIMPLY STUCK TO ISSUES AND NOT LABELED OUR PREZ AS INCOMPETENT AND DUMSOR...DUMSOR THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS - WHAT DID NPP DO ABOUT IT, EH??!!! ***barred word*** NOISY PARTY
so mr president are you serious about de one million votes ,you want from ashanti region . i guess u don't desverse another term.ghanains are more wiser than you.
rubish wat did de president said dat is not true all wat de president said is true about npp peroid no amount of insult can rubish de truth as for dat naive organisation nobody should take dem serious and they can go to hell if they want to be fair they should look else where and not de presidents angle because we know the president we have very humble and undestandable
OPEN LETTER TO GHANA PEOPLE. .all ghana people must come together to vote mahama out , he has mess the country, no alien must vote in ghana again. all Togolese must go to togo and vote , ghana people dont vote in togo, aliens must stay away from ghana politic, we shall deal with any alien this year, ghana people wake up and take ghana from his nation wreckers, , ghana is for ghana people only, ,,, nana will come, must come to save ghana and it people , from hungry worried people of ghana,
Mahama is the most dangerous president ever in the history of Ghana. 1. {he kill president Atta Mills} 2. He tempted to kill Bawumia, and Nana Addo. 3. Poisoning the Northerners not to vote for NPP because the NPP hate People from the North , so ***barred word***, president don't talk like that.
Ghanaians should not be surprised at the way prez mahama has switch to this tactics of tribal and insults and saying things on heard off,of a prez this ndc people know what they are about they ve recognized how unpopular he is with all the dumsor and hardships people have faced up to this election time they are aware,mr mahama knows ghanaians are very forgetful of their past hardship and when u present to them things like projects and newly constructed roads mostly the ***barred word*** once will fall to it considering the high illiteracy rate in ghana,one even wonder how mr mahama could even say ghana is leading the u.s.a in infrastructure and he said this up in the north becuz he knows majority of the people up in the north are illiterates and will believe him ...trust me this ndc people know what they are about,is very sad all those comments we have heard through out this election period from the prez is nothing good to write home about
When I hear NPP is for akans I wonder what they mean when over 40 people from northern Ghana served as ministers and deputy ministers ,few I can remember..aliu Mahama,agambila,alhaji mustapha idris,hawa yakubu,mogtari,imoru andani,Mohammed salifu,mallam issah,Boniface etc,so why this divisive talk from no other person than the prez of the country?