There is no gainsaying the fact that former President John Dramani Mahama is desperate for power, but for him to have gathered the rest of the world with the view to showcasing the ills that visited the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election is something that beats the imagination.
The Former President, on Wednesday, 13th February, 2019, gathered members of the diplomatic community in Ghana and showed them footages of the violence which rocked the by-election in the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency.
Mr. Mahama, in the video, painted a hellishly beastly picture of Ghana’s security situation to the enthusiastic gathering.
He pontificated that Ghana under His Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is in a deplorable state and that if care is not taken, Ghana’s envious democratic credentials would be eroded as a result of what he described as a state of insecurity in the country.
It would be prudent, at this juncture, not to mince words in condemning the former president for painting such a gloomy scenario of the country in terms of security.
As a former president, one would expect that he would not go to this extreme in his bid to win sympathies for himself as the next elections loom large.
For the eight years of NDC rule, Ghanaians became victims of a systemic course of violence, especially in our by-elections. The Chereponi, Atiwa and Talensi by-elections were classic cases of electoral violence whose magnitudes are yet to be bested in our electoral history.
The former president, if he were honest, would not have picked the skirmishes in the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election alone but would have added those which occurred during the Chereponi, Atiwa and Talensi by-elections.
His base and unpatriotic motives could well be detected in this well-rehearsed, aggrandized and embellished agenda to sell Ghana to the international community as a failed state.
Many a Ghanaian had hoped that if even he had concerns, he could have assembled some civil society organizations in the country to express his misgivings about what transpired in Ayawaso West Wuogon.
The good people of Ghana must condemn this unstatesmanlike behavior of the former president. It would appear that winning the next elections is far more important to him if it would even send Ghana’s enviable reputation downhill.
Source: newsroomgh.com
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JM want tell us he could not find one wise elder in the country to whine to? This man needs to grow up just a little.
Oh, you don't want the diplomatic community to know the true story. they have a stake in what goes on in Ghana. they contribute to the budget of your elections and also we live in a global village that's why UN and USA can topple any country in the name security for its citizens. why do you keep on referring to previous byelection problems. we have moved on so if moving on but still behaving like those old times then people must know to help solve it. shame unto you if you think the diplomatic community doesn't know already. get some soul and stop defending your party immaturely.
When people rather prefer lies to the truth, they turn to hypocritically criticise the aspect that have the capacity to expose them. I was thinking that the writer was disagreeing with the facts as presented and not knowing he or she wanted us to pretend that all is well when indeed all is not well. The writer is a disgrace to moral society and all well meaning Ghanaians especially those with their heads properly screwed on to condemn the writer for even attempting to corrupt moral society with his wicked, selfish interest.
If saying the truth to DIPLOMATS is unpatriotic then nana addo is the unpatriotic prefect.
Horla someone is what? I wish all ndc loose their legs! some people died in Chereponi, some people were runover in Atiwa by Anita De Sooso and you say what?a lazy ndc footsoldier who think he will die fir somebody for nokofio should be used to disgrace our country? John mahama will never come back to power never ever! 2020 he will get 30 % mark it! He is a Fo0000*00l! and Prof. Mills made a grievous mistake by selecting such an idi*ot as his running mate and Vice president! he has disgraced himself by his electoral defeat syndrome! he needs help ! are the diplomats going to vote in Ghana? a f00*00l is always a f00**00l no matter how he is nurtured in a palace ! those diplomats, the U S and the Japanese diplomats made a mistake to visit him, he took that advantage to misbehave, he thought he is relevant and now they've listened to sh*it from a drunkard !
This is a disgrace to yourself for writing this. Someone is losing his leg and you call this a disgrace to the country ...You people are jokers
this will not bring back the power . You are disgrace to the nation.