Member of Parliament for the North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has served notice that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will not tolerate any attempt to undermine the choice of Prof. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang as John Dramani Mahama’s running mate due to gender.
Ablakwa argues that the running mate of the NDC’s flagbearer should be judged based on her ability to deliver and nothing else.
Prof. Opoku-Agyemang was named as the running mate to John Mahama yesterday, July 6, 2020.
The former Deputy Minister of Education under the Mahama regime, speaking on the Point Blank segment on Eyewitness News said: “Some of us will boldly confront these stereotypes and discrimination that have prevented women. Women are the majority of our population. They are 51 percent of our population and so they must be heard. If this is a true democracy in the sense of the word, it ought to be inclusive and participatory by giving women their fair share.”
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) had ridiculed the NDC flagbearer over his choice of running mate ahead of the December 2020 polls.
According to the ruling party, John Mahama’s decision to settle on former Education Minister, Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang is enough proof that he does not take the ordinary Ghanaian seriously.
At a press conference in Accra, Communications Director of the NPP, Yaw Buaben Asamoa said per the party’s observation, “we only conclude that the choice of Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyeman by Mr John Dramani Mahama is a clear indication that he does not take the Ghanaian electorate seriously”.
The party also has cast doubt over the credibility of Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang as the choice of running mate.
At the same press conference, they questioned the integrity and commitment of madam Opoku-Agyemang during her tenure as Education Minister under the erstwhile Mahama-led administration.
Mr. Buaben Asamoa cited, among other things, cancellation of the teacher trainee allowance, freeze on education sector employment and their signing of the petition to have the Montie trio released as some of the decisions that ultimately make her unfit for the new role.
“Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang’s ardent anti-feminist posturing was too obvious to ignore when she appended her signature to the petition to have the trio who had then been incarcerated at Nsawam to be freed against sound advice from well-meaning Ghanaians.”
“We wonder what message candidate Mahama is sending to Ghanaians by picking Opoku-Agyemnag as Vice Presidential candidate when her stewardship in the past brought hardship to teachers and trauma to her colleague women. While we wish the NDC well in this regard, we also wish to tell the NDC that we are ready to tell Ghanaians about the dangers she poses to our growth and development as a country”, he said.
Source: Citinews
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Thanks for your submission but those you refer to as "Bible Belt" didn't vote for Hilary just because she is a woman....the truth is that the kind of policies that the democrats pushed at the time were very alien to Biblical teaching. For example, abortion, lgbt etc. if you take only these two, they have the tendency to negatively affect the survival of the human race. I like your submission though.
What is the percentage of the women's populace in Ghana who have got the privilege to go to a tertiary school? Unfortunately for the ndc most Ghanaians still believe that men are the "head of the family". Ghanaians are Conservative Christians and Muslims. Quite a number of European countries have got women as their prime ministers because the majority are not religious. Look at what happened in America. A lot of the women in what they called the bible belt voted against Hilary because they believed women should not be the Head.
GHANA HAS NO PROBLEM WITH THE CHOICE OF WOMAN FOR A RUNNING MATE. THERE IS NOTHING STRANGE BOUT IT. THERE HAVE BEEN WOMEN CHIEF JUSTICE, AG. A WOMAN RUNNING MATE IS NO PROBLEM TO GHANAIANS. NDC AND MAHAMA IS THE PROBLEM TO GHANAIANS. MANY BELIEVE THAT WITH THE SAME MAHAMA AS THE CANDIDATE THE REST IS SAME STORIES. CORRUPTION, INCOMPETENCE AND VISSIONLESS. NAAANA OR NO NAANA MAHAMA IS INCORRIGIBLE.
you have no shame