The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo has dismissed claims by Ghana’s Ambassador to Namibia that he (Akufo Addo) in a private conversation said a non-Akan cannot lead the party.
Haruna Attah who was a staunch member of the NPP in a statement said "I do recollect very clearly, as if it happened only yesterday, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo invited me to his office at Ridge near the offices of the Electoral Commission. I honoured the invitation, not knowing what to expect. The outcome was one of the most revealing encounters I have ever had with a Ghanaian politician. He raised a number of issues and concluded on my 'support' for the late Vice President. On that, this is what he told me.
The words have been indelibly etched on my conscience: 'Haruna, your support for Aliu was flawed. If you think our party will cede its Akan leadership, you are wrong.' He went on to expatiate on the theme, but with my mind reeling at this blatant and brazen ethnocentricity, nothing else really mattered to me again. When I left, I confided in a few people, mainly family and friends, as witnesses." (click to read more)
But in a quick response, Mustapha Hamid, Nana Addo's spokesperson told Joy FM Thursday that: "It’s a total fabrication, it’s a falsehood; no such conversation has ever taken place between him and Haruna Atta. That is a simple fact…why would a diplomat like Akufo Addo be telling a Northerner in his face that no northerner will ever rule our party when he has ambitions to be president? I think that we should credit Akufo Addo with some level of intelligence. So this is a total fabrication. It is a panic reaction to the kind of support we are garnering in the north…"
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Ebei Haruna, you disgrace yourself...small post they gave u...what if they had made you ambassador to USA..what would you have said? Why wud Nana tell you this even if he believes in it, when you yourself are a Northerner? Eh think small, Haru...you pee on yourself
Haruna ata u ar a disgrace to northners. and u the editor of that paper siting on gh one is an ***barred word***.
The so called Ambassador,and also a political ***barred word*** "Arta lies" should switch himself off and take new plan bcse this Can not stop NANA ADDO from winning the Dec 7 election.(INSHA ALLAH)
With this kind of reactions from the NDC over whom Northeners should vote for, it is clearer that they are actually losing their grip of the North. Yes, it is "Panic Reaction"
Just when the Country was about forgetting the much condemned President Mahama's ethnocentrism comments, you come with this to "muddy the waters". Given that it is true, the Man probably succeeded in tearing only you one individual apart in private. But you, in turn, seek to tear a whole nation apart by your attempt to discredit him with this story. Now this is why what you have done has backfired?!!!
Guys i ve seem tipical f001x in Ghana. But you are an expect. U seem to be so f0.011sh dah ur senses hve roten. U dey here dey talk abe shrtness abeg ur ape Grandaddy dey long anaa. I can see ur smelling Gut only got ***barred word*** in dem. U dex headsmen of today wan tell we Ghanians wah to do.
I have lost every respect that I had for Haruna Attah. How can he stoop so low to engage in such dirty politics. Because he was made an ambassador by John Mahama he decided to sell his whole soul so cheaply. Today in Ghana once respectable persons are now selling their conscience to fill their stomachs.
The NDC HAS NO CAMPAIGN MESSAGE SO HAS TO RESORT TO TRIBALISM AND DIVISIVE POLITICS. WE ARE WISER AND BETTER THAN THAT. WE WILL NOT FALL FOR THIS ETHNOCENTRIC SENTIMENTS. WE WILL VOTE FOR AN INCORRUPTIBLE MAN THAT IS NANA ADDO. HE IS A VISIONARY, COMPETENT AND A TRUE STATESMAN WHO TRULY INSPIRES. NANA ADDO AND NPP WILL WIN ONE TOUCH. GOD IS IN CONTROL. BY THE WAY WHERE IS WOYOME'S MONEY AND THE FORD EXPLORER
Hamid, I think it is needless commenting on this. Don't you have better things doing? Please for goodness sake, preserve your energy and channel them into something which will be of a value to our quest of winning the elections.
A one-time fine journalist has now become a "stomach" politician. He has now joined the ***barred word*** brigade, and as a result, forgotten the very core moral and ethical principles that made him stand out among his peers. Well. Your days are numbered.