The Gonjaland Youth Association in the Northern region has advised the Overlord of the Gonja Traditional Council Yagbonwura Tutumba Bore Essah I and chiefs in the Gonjaland to cancel a meeting to congratulate president elect Nana Addo for victory in the 2016 elections.
Instead the association wants the chiefs to commiserate with their kin, the outgoing president John Dramani Mahama over the election defeat.
Mahama Haruna public relations officer of the group in an interview with Starrnews said Gonjas must not desert Mr. Mahama in the time of need.
“President John Dramani Mahama is our own (son) who is still ‘mourning’ . Are we going to tell the whole world that we are happy he lost and that we don’t share in his grief? Is President Mahama’s pain not our pain?”, Haruna quized.
The Dagbon and the Mamprugu Traditional Councils in what has been widely condemned paid a ‘hasty’ visit to the president elect who had begun sending grateful acknowledgement to traditional rulers.
Many who strongly criticised the two traditional councils argued the chiefs cheapen themselves and the people they rule and call for self respect.
After vising the Ga traditional council, the Asanteman council and the Asogli state the group spokeperson believes it is disrespectful for the President elect to expect chiefs from the north to rather visit him after a massive electoral support.
“I thought it’s rather the President elect and his running mate who are going round greeting traditional rulers. Why the rush from Gonja Chiefs to go to him.What is public knowledge is that he is visiting traditional councils and thanking them”
“If the Asanteman Council, the Ga Traditional Council and the Asogli State can wait for him to come to them why cant the Gonja Kingdom also wait for the President elect to give them the necessary respect by calling on them?
Has any southern ethnic chief rushed to congratulate the President elect?”
In response, secretary to the Yagbonwura Mr. Abudu Kopori said the association has judged amiss saying the overlord had no intention to visit the president elect.
Relationship between president Mahama and his tribesmen [some Gonja chiefs]has hit a new low after he failed severally to visit the Gonjaland during his extravagant campaign tours to the region that led to his crushing defeat in the just ended polls.
Source: kasapafmonline.com
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This is absurd. Even the President in his capacity has congratulated the the president elect. So why are they crying foul. They need to be educated.
It is becomes very difficult to understand why almost every tribe in Ghana hate Ashantis. I am not an Ashanti but this tribal hate is very coloquial. The only tribe which is highly respected in Ghana outside our boarders is Ashanti. It has a great history and thought in many schools outside Ghana including Europe, the Americas, Asia and parts of Africa. People pretend to hate Ashantis so much but most Ghanians from other tribes have dropped their tribal names and have adopted Ashanti names. I have witnessed so many issues when an Ashanti man wants to marry from another tribe. Ashantis dont really care about the tribe in wich they marry into but mostly find it challenging when marrying outside their tribe. Most of these houses and other establishments built around the western and Central Region were mostly the works of Ashanti men who married Fanti women. We all no the story! How these Ashanti husbands were killed by their own wives through the influnces of their wives elders!!! THEY ARE NOT ONE OF US!!!! When you go to Kumasi and other part of Ashanti Region you will experience the great mix of culture. Almost every single tribe in Ghana has its own comunity in Kumasi. Why cant we welcome Ashantis like they freely and whole-heartedly embrace others?Ashantis are always hated but these are the people who own almost 60-70% of Ghana's enterprises. Ashantis born and raised as an Ashanti is a hardworking person and highly responsible and naturally intelligent. Are they been hated because of the uniqueness? Come on lets put the hate away and start to love one another!!!!
@ jonathan,,laggos, what do you contribute? for all we know you are one of them. Just keep quite if you have nothing sensible to contribute ok.
Gonja ppl dnt contribute anything to ghana GDP. They are mostly beggars, kayayos nnarrmed robbbbbers so they can go to hellll!!!
Where and when did Nana Addo ask Gonja chief to com e to Accra to greet him? Let the so called Gonja youth give us evidence. Nana Addo is touring the regions to thank Ghanaians. His fiest stop in every region is the the house of chiefs. He has been to Greater Accra, Ashanti, Volta Regions. He has gone to the Northern Region yet but this so called Gonja Youth is trying to give a dog a bad name in order to hang him. When he gets to the Northern Region house of chiefs and the Gonja chiefs don't want to show up that is their choice. This tribal inward ***barred word*** belongs to the gutters.
Even though I agree with the youth in sharing with their regents not to come down to Accra to visit the president-elect since he's embarking on thank you visits, the angle of out-going president being their own is infantile and smacks of tribalism. We must seek the good of things in the right order. There was no need for that tangential deviation. SHAME!!!!
Who does not know how Asantes and Akyems treats the Northern people? If people do not know this then they are lying from their teeth. When Liman became president, these people composed a song called Wo Kum Odi hye ma donko edi adie(A master is killed for slave to succeed him or her). But Northerns do not learn like Fantes people. Why Asantes always for for their own and not the others? That what I do not Understand.They should go and read Animal11111 Kingdom.So what. I am waiting for my $1 million for K.E.E.A, my free school, my dam for my Village, free healthcare, free house, free free wife if possible, my factory for my Village. However, did UP/NPP got somebody for the thank you service to Atoa Niama or not? or they used that Fante guy who die in a hotel for the thank you service or not?
Who does not know how Asantes and Akyems treats the Northern people? If people do not know this then they are lying from their teeth. When Liman became president, these people composed a song called Wo Kum Odi hye ma donko edi adie(A master is killed for slave to succeed him or her). But Northerns do not learn like Fantes people. Why Asantes always for for their own and not the others? That what I do not Understand.They should go and read ***barred word*** Kingdom.So what. I am waiting for my $1 million for K.E.E.A, my free school, my dam for my Village, free healthcare, free house, free free wife if possible, my factory for my Village. However, did UP/NPP got somebody for the thank you service to Atoa Niama or not? or they used that Fante guy who die in a hotel for the thank you service or not?
pls lets exercise some decorum some times because the youth has eared big time but that doesn't mean that we should also go beyond the limit of our training
the Gonja youth are hurt by Mahama's defeat but that is not their core message. they are entreating their chiefs not to subjugate themselves before the president elect and i think that is right. if some chiefs deserve to be visited by nana then so do ALL chiefs. the reputation of northeners among Asante and Akyem is well-known. Northeners are treated with utter contempt and disrespect. if any reversal of this is to happen it will have to start with the chiefs. stay put and wait for the president elect to show YOU some respect. you've earned it.