The governing New Patriotic Party has accused flag bearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress John Dramani Mahama of deliberately seeking to ride on tribal bigotry to win the 2020 elections.
According to them, former President John Dramani Mahama has no message for the voting masses and has no record to match President Nana Akufo-Addo who is working hard to solve the real-life problems that confront the Ghanaian people.
The former President has in recent times raised concerns over what he described as deliberate use of the military to prevent non-Akans from registering in the just ended voter registration exercise.
At a media briefing on Monday addressed by General Secretary of the NPP John Boadu, the party said “John Mahama has resorted to this old bogus propaganda trick used by empty power hungry tyrants of decades gone-by because he has no policy response to Akufo-Addo’s social interventions and economic policies.”
Contrary to claims by former President John Dramani Mahama that the President is sinking Ghana’s envious record of peace and security, John Boadu maintained “Akufo-Addo has been instrumental in maintaining peace and tranquility throughout the country, including in Dagbon since he came into office. He will be the last to want to disturb the peace. We must completely and totally reject Mahama’s hate-for-votes campaign and look at the real facts.”
While citing the voter registration turnout in the Volta region as published by the Electoral Commission, the NPP also dismissed assertions that there was voter suppression in that part of the country.
“We are calling on our brothers and sisters of the Volta Region and indeed all Ghanaians to stand up against being used as pawns in this dangerous political chess game by a desperate John Mahama. Mahama showed very little concern for our brothers and sisters in the Volta Region when he had the opportunity as president to impact their lives. John Mahama cannot be trusted and we say so by his own record and not just his dangerous words,” the party stated.
