The Executive Director of Danquah Institute, Dr Kingsley Nyarko thinks that former President John Mahama is not conducting himself as a statesman with his recent comments.
Dr. Kingsley Nyarko is accusing the handlers of the former President of doing him a great disservice by allowing him to make certain comments that are not in tune with his integrity as someone who once governed the country.
In a statement, he urged the former leader of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to elevate the standard of politics in the country by avoiding certain comments that fit in the class of ordinary members of his party.
“Mr. Mahama you need to elevate the standard of politics in the country; you need to tell the citizenry, what you can do to improve the living standards of the people, and make their lives better should you get the unlikely opportunity you are seeking to lead the country instead of sounding condescending of the President and demeaning your image. I think President Mahama should be the last person to describe anybody, let alone the high performing, competent, visionary, high flying and highly competent President Akufo-Addo as incompetent”, Dr Nyarko stated.
The statement was in response to a call by Mr Mahama for President Akufo-Addo and his government to go for Bishop Obinim’s sticker to help cure their ‘super incompetence’.
The sticker which is said to work wonders, the former President said must be given to the sitting President and his government so they can perform better.
The trend is based on hilarious and outrageous claims people are making and attributing it to a miraculous sticker from Bishop Daniel Obinim, the founder, and leader of International God’s Way Church.
Apparently, church members of Obinim give testimonies at his church regarding the wonderful things the sticker has done for them ever since they bought it. And that has sparked the Obinim Sticker Challenge On Social Media.
But Mr Mahama, addressing NDC members in Wa in the Upper West Region, said the sticker is needed for Akufo-Addo and his team to perform.
“I have been watching social media lately, and there’s something that has come, and I think it cures everything. It’s the Obinim sticker, the President and his government need an Obinim sticker. If it really works, then I think they need the sticker. So I am saying that we cannot depend on their incompetence, we need to work hard to gain the support of the electorate,” Mahama said.
But Dr Nyarko, a former lecturer at the University of Ghana Department of Psychology believes the former President must grow beyond such comments in his public discourse.
Below is a copy of the statement
I thought former President Mahama’s comment about President Akufo-Addo needing Obinim’s sticker was a joke, until I heard him speak on TV3 a while ago.
In fact, that comment doesn’t reflect a Statesman and I think his handlers are doing him a great disservice.
If he continues with comments like this, he will be exposing himself to public ridicule all the time.
What Prez Mahama is doing clearly shows a drowning and desperate man seeking straw to survive in order to be relevant and increase his chances of leading his party in the 2020 presidential contest.
But, Mr. Mahama you need to elevate the standard of politics in the country; you need to tell the citizenry, what you can do to improve the living standards of the people, and make their lives better should you get the unlikely opportunity you are seeking to lead the country instead of sounding condescending of the President and demeaning your image.
I think President Mahama should be the last person to describe anybody, let alone the high performing, competent, visionary, high flying and highly competent President Akufo-Addo as incompetent.
Mr. Mahama should tell us, apart from sinking the economy, performing poorly on all the macroeconomic indicators, making life for the citizenry unbearable, promoting unprecedented corruption in the country among others, what competent policy he rolled out to soothe our economic pains and challenges? Nothing! Yet, he speaks as if he did anything unique for the country. His handlers are making him look bad and behaving not like a Statesman!
God bless Ghana!!
Dr. Kingsley Nyarko
(Executive Director, Danquah Institute)
Source: Graphic.com
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That was the reason why he had a failed government.
VERY S*ILLY STATEMENT FROM AN INSTITUTE THAT WANTS TO BE RECOGNISED. I WONDER WHAT CALIBRE OF BRAINS ISSUED THAT STATEMENT. IS IT BECAUSE IT IS DANQUAH INSTITUTE LINKED TO THE STTING PRESIDENT? IF AT YOUR SUPPOSED LEVEL YOU SEE THIS SITTING GOVERNMENT AS " let alone the high performing, competent, visionary, high flying and highly competent President Akufo-Addo" THEN I THINK THE DANQUAH INSTITUTE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND ITS OWN PURPOSE OF EXISTENCE. SOME OF THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE THERE FOR PERSONAL GAINS RATHER THAN SEEING THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY MAKE ***barred word*** COMENTS JUST BECAUSE THEY NEED SOME SUPPORT. IS THIS A PERFORMING GOVERNMENT? SUCH A CONFUSED, CLUELESS AND ***barred word*** GOVERNMENT OF THE HIGHEST STANDARD EVER. THE FIRST DEMONSTRATION ALONE WILL TELL YOU HOW DISSATISFIED GHANA ARE ALREADY WITH THIS GOVENMENT. YOU CAN BE PAID TO TAKE YOUR STANCE BUT SOCIETY IS WIDE AWAKE.
The vain man is that kapuerpuer short man with a mouth full of warm water we have as a president. What has Mahama said that doesn't warrant him being a stateman? You guys have soon forgotten how every "nobody" within the NPP took Mahama to the cleaners at every and any given opportunity? Today that the tables have turn, he is a vain man!!! On the contrary, we Ghanaians are rather been taught a lesson with Nana Addo as President. The floating voters and even some NPP sympathizers are giving up hopes in this "MBUTUMBANZA" duo. What is it about Mahama that gets the whole of the NPP on the edge? You have won power concentrate on your power!!! If someone says Nana needs an Obinim sticker considering the current social media "joke" what or how does that make one less a stateman?
I totally agree with you. Mahama is simply a vain man God used to teach us a lesson as a nation. Never was and never will be a statesman. It's simply not in his DNA
Now I can see between Mahama and Nana who is really a statesman. Until 2016 elections, I thought Nana but now I can clearly see just after 14 months that Mahama is superior.
because he is not a statesman. he in an ndc footwatchman
Why should you believe you. You have not commented on NADAA unprofessional speech. You have not condemned the vigilantism in recent times. Your political lenses are blinding your vision.
Hahaha, you people don’t fear GOD! Even your so called j.b. danquah who took bribes from the CIA is saidtobe a statesman. It is his same shameful behavior that Nana Addo is following in selling Ghana for 20 million dollars!! The cheek of a dead rat!!
John Mahama has never and can never be a statesman. He doesn't know what it mean.