The National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) worn-out tribal card game-plan is back at the front burner as MP for Asutifi South in the Bono Region pits Northerners/Zongo indigenes against the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Northerners and Zongo indigenes in the NPP, according to Alhaji Collins Dauda, have no future because they do not matter in the scheme of things in the ruling party.
He was addressing a rally of NDC faithful in his constituency when he served notice of the direction of his party’s campaign in the run-up to next year’s polls.
Ali Suraj ‒ one of the two NPP members who have announced their intention to vie for the seat ahead of their party primary and his subsequent radio programme ‒ appears to have pushed the MP to release prematurely his party’s game-plan.
Collins Dauda, a former Minister of Lands, Water Resources, Works & Housing, made a direct reference to Ali Suraj’s remark on radio in which he reportedly asked members of the constituency to vote for him.
According to Collins Dauda, Ali Suraj asked Northerners or ‘Pepe’ as the Akans call them, to vote for him because, after all he (Collins Dauda) is also of Northern extraction or from the Zongo.
“The NPP have two persons vying for their party’s candidacy. One of them is Yaw Owusu. The other man said on radio that they have tried to no avail to remove a ‘Pepeman’ from the seat.
“He is asking you to vote for him so he would replace a ‘Pepeman’. So, why would you want to replace a ‘Pepeman’ with another ‘Pepeman’”? he asked rhetorically.
Zongo elements and their Northern counterparts have no future in the NPP, he said, adding, “In the NDC, things are different, whether you are a Frafra, Dagarti, Dagomba, Wangara or Fulani, there is no discrimination against you.”
“The NPP has no good intentions for Northerners and the Zongos,” he said, indicating that “if you are a Northerner and a member of the NPP, bear in mind that your fate is stalled.”
Continuing, he said, “If you are a Northerner and associated with the NPP and you allow your child who has graduated from the university to join you in the NPP, know that your child has no future… Because they (NPP) have sworn not to make him or her progress.”
The opposition party has played the tribal card for many years until a recent lull with the appearance of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as a running mate and eventually as Vice President, a feat the NDC itself has never been able to achieve till date.
Empirical evidence presents the NPP as the political grouping with unequalled Zongo-friendly policies.
For the first time in the history of post-independence Ghana, a whole ministry has been established and dedicated towards addressing the peculiar needs of these often neglected segments of the country by the Akufo-Addo-led government.
There is also in place a Zongo Development Fund whose first budgetary allocation has already hit the accounts of the agency.
To activate this ethnocentric campaign trick once more would surely trigger a long debate on the political plane in the days to come.
Source: Daily Guide
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Collins Dauda is not a Northerner. He does not come from any region in the North. He cannot speak for Northerners. He himself was born in the South from parents who descended from outside Ghana. He is Ghanaian because he is born in the southern Ghana, He has became desperate for the fear to loose his seat. That is why he is playing tribal politics with Northerners.
NDC does not like Southerns. Asutifi south Mugabe is afraid of losing his seat😀😀. Both the NPP's Ali Suraj and NDC's Collins Duada should stop this ***barred word*** tribal politics. Peacefmonline, stop this copy and paste thing. Asutifi south is in the Ahafo Region not Bono Region.
Fuseini Donkor, a northerner was a DCE for Afram Plains in Ashanti, Mutaka, another northerner is an MP in Kumasi. Many northerners are heads of institutions in Asante. In spite of all these they say Asantes do not respect northerners or are tribalistic, for example Pastor Kofi Oduro. Kofi Oduro, the anti-Asante preacher, should find out if northerners will accept anybody called Boateng, Owusu or Boakye as an MP or even a headmaster in the North?
COLLIN DAUDA ONCE SAID BEFORE THE LAST ELECTION THAT NANA ADDO OUR PRESIDENT WILL DRIVE AWAY FOREIGNERS WHEN NANA WINS THE ELECTION. HON. ATTA OUR HOUSING MINISTER WILL DEAL WITH YOU. YOU THIE....
go to all the northern regions in the country and see if you will get any AKAN being an MP. NOTHERNERS are the people who can become MP anywhere in Ghana but NEVER in their areas. who is more trabalistic than northeners wnen it comes to who lead them in their dominant areas. kwaseabufuo
ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE LEADERS (MP) IN THIS COUNTRY, BECAUSE OF POWER SEE HOW YOU ARE SHAMELESSLY TALKING ***barred word***!
If there is any party that hates northerners, it is NDC. Collins Dauda is corrupt and he is hiding behind tribal sentiments to fight his corruption allegations. The Northerners will not support your selfish and corrupted mindset. Enough is Enough, go to court, Collins.
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Anokwa paaa infact so we yi nso y3 Former MP.Such a loose statement to make causing confusion.Hes a myopic,cant see far ***barred word*** driven by greed and love for cheap money.Wo y3 nipa hunu paa
You Collins Dauda are you a Northerner to talk about Northerners? if ndc love Northerners what help did you give them in power? if ndc love Northerners even with a northern son as president the help HD gave them was suba, sada, gyeeda nkomfem fly away to Burkina and never returned! a northern president collected money in the name of Northerners to plant trees which never came to pass but rather told Ghanaians all the trees got burnt, ndc love to Zongo is to gather their youth to form vigilante groups and get killed eg Kumasi , ndc love for Zongo created confused Hajj ndc love for Northerners taxed even poor kayayees. Collins Dauda Ghana is not your country and you can't bring any confusion to Ghana and run to Niger your home country ! You will leave Ghana before what you thinking will happen. Ghana is not ECOWAS annex Go Back Home. You have the nerve to talk after allowing your brother Naaba to kill Ghanaians in Asutifi, the people will be the ost ***barred word*** who must be ign*ored if they vote for this foreigner who killed an indigene to become an mp.