President John Mahama erred badly in his tribal comments against Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the vice-presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kofi Bentil, Vice President of IMANI Ghana, has said.
President Mahama, addressing party supporters in Lawra as part of his campaign tour of the Upper West Region, urged the electorate not to be deceived by the role Dr Bawumia was playing in the NPP because he will never be given the opportunity to lead the party.
He said: “Alhaji Aliu Mahama was vice president under the NPP government. He served faithfully under President Kufuor and, so, when eight years was up and President Kufuor was leaving, the natural order of succession is that he should have been given the opportunity to lead that party, but 17 people contested him and defeated him and that is why I say NDC is a party of opportunity because if NDC wasn’t, who am I? A boy from Bole born in Damongo, who am I to stand here and call myself president of the Republic of Ghana?
“[The NDC] is the party that opens its opportunities to all Ghanaians irrespective of what your ethnic affiliation is. Sometimes I feel sad when I see some of our northern brothers running around and also doing this. … They will use you and dump you. I want to live and see the day. Let anything happen today and let our brother Bawumia say he is standing for president in NPP. They will never give it to him, I can assure you. When the misfortune hit us and our father Professor Mills passed away, the constitution said the vice president should take over, I did. But then we were close to an election. If it was another party, they would have insisted that there should be a congress and in that congress I would have been contested and they would have given the leadership to somebody else.”
But in a Facebook post, Mr Bentil said: “Tribal politics is never a good idea; let’s all eschew it. ... Mr President, you erred badly... See…if northerners were to consider what their kin have done against them in SADA and related scandals, they would vote massively against NDC. ... If Akans were to vote as a tribal unit for NPP, no party would win any election in Ghana!!!”
He added: “Say no to tribal politics!!”
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How did President Mahama become a President. Simply because of the death of former leader President John Atta Mills. As the constitution demands, he (Mahama) automatically became president and at that time Mahama was somehow the best person to lead NDC. If really Atta Mills had completed his 8 year term, Mahama wouldn't have had the chance to lead NDC. All the big people in NDC know this fact.
Was it proper for former president Kufour to ask Eastern Region people to vote for their own? Hypocrisy at its apex
WHY SHOULD WE THE NORTHERNERS SETTLE FOR LESS. WE WILL PREFER GOLD TO SAWDUST. PRESIDENT TO VICE PRESIDENT. THE BEST NPP CAN OFFER TO NORTHERNERS IS VICE PRESIDENT SLOT. THEY HAVE NEVER FOUND IT WORTHY to vote FOR NORHERNERS IN THEIR PARTY AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. AFOKO DISMISSED, DOMBO TRADITION MISSING IN NPP MANTRA. WHY SETTLE FOR LESS , MY COLLEAGUE NORTHERNERS, GO FOR THE PRESIDENCY NOT VICE,
YOU SEE, MAHAMA LACKS A LOT OF LEADERSHIP SKILLS. HOW CAN A LEADER GOVERNING THE WHOLE COUNTRY WILL STOOP SO LOW TO SAY ALL KIND OF THINGS THAT TEND TO DIVIDE THE COUNTRY RATHER THAN OTHERWISE? WOULD YOU BECOME PRESIDENT IF GHANAIAN WERE TO VOTE ON TRIBAL LINES IN 2012? ALL THESE SHOW HOW INCOMPETENT MAHAMA IS. HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT REQUIRES OF A PRESIDENT. HE SHOULD KNOW BETTER. HE SHOULD GO AND READ ABOUT THE HISTORY TO RWANDA'S GENOCIDE. WE DON'T WANT THAT IN GHANA. HE SHOULD LEAVE US IN PEACE. AFTER CREATING PAINS FOR US, MAKING US POORER, MAKING US UNEMPLOYED ETC HE SHOULD LEAVE US ALONE. HE SHOULD LEAVE THE OPPOSITION TO DO THIS AND RATHER CALL THEM TO ORDER. MAHAMA DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE PRESIDENT. HE CAN'T BE FATHER FOR ALL. HE CAN'T BE TRUSTED. HE IS NOT A GOOD LEADER. WE THOSE WHO ARE NOT NORTHERNERS WILL TAKE YOUR ADVICE SERIOUSLY AND VOTE ACCORDINGLY COME DECEMBER. "PEACE-LOVER" INDEED! GOD SAVES GHANA.
The president did not err. It is a hidden fact we are shying away from. Nana never respected the person of Aliu Mahama as a vice president. Infact he never accorded respect to even K4.
F0000uulish talk but it is right for this id1ot called Bawumia to insult the president that he has disgraced Northerners and also they should vote for Nana Addo for him to become vice president because he is a Muslim.
You and who love him.............tickle urself and laugh....... Your president says trash and u r here defending him.....no wonder like father like son... Nons.ense
The man has lost it... defeat is awaiting him come December 7th. The electorates have made up their mind so no amount of divisive political game can reverse things for him. The NDC is going straight to the opposition. Enough of the corruption.
I don't know what the President made those comments.He should not have made those comments,they are really bad. Let's do our politics right the right way and avoid tribal comments and sentiments.We need peace for our democratic process to grow.We need peace to exist as a nation. There will not be a president when the nation and people are no more.Let,s all be cautious with our words.
President Kuffour did a similar thing over the weekend in the Eastern Region but we are only focusing on the President Mahama and that is hypocritical and absurdity. IMANI YOU HAVE FAILED WITH YOUR NGO BECAUSE YOU ARE ACTING HYPOCRITICAL AND ABSURD.