Pollster Ali Moro has asserted that Ghana as country is not prepared to elect a female as president.
Despite the conscious efforts by the country to ensure gender equality at all fronts, the pollster observed that it has not yet broken such gender barriers and concertize its citizens enough to trust in the abilities of females to lead and steer its affairs at the top echelon of leadership.
He said although females have proven that they are capable of leading the country, he doesn’t see the country electing a female president in the next decade.
“We haven’t gotten to the point that the women will move out of the kitchen or beyond the kitchen and beyond the bed to come and then take up serious leadership roles. It is the right thing to do. I have always been one of the people who believe that having a woman may actually change a lot things,” he stated on State of Our Nation on Dreamz FM.
“We have a woman as the Chief of Staff and she is doing excellently well. We had women as Chief Justices and they did excellently well like men would have done. We are getting to that stage. But I’m not sure the country is yet prepared in terms of our reasoning to have a woman president or a woman leading a political party”.
The pollster said this while speaking on the selection of Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang as running-mate to the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress John Dramani Mahama.
Mr. Mahama, after close to a year of his election as the party’s leader, on March 7, unveiled the former Education Minister as his running-mate.
He explained that, ““Her integrity, dedication, and vision for a better Ghana make her the ideal candidate to join me in leading our party to victory in the upcoming elections”.
Ali Moro agreed that Prof. Opoku-Agyemang is the right candidate to partner Mr. Mahama as she has what it takes to aid his presidential bid, but stated that she is not well placed to succeed the former president who is eligible for just a term in office after serving his first term from 2013 to 2017.
“I strongly doubt Jane Naana herself would even want to take over the party after their term is done. I’m not really sure she will be positioning herself for that. (But) in politics, everything is possible”.
