Central Regional Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described the New Patriotic Party (NPP’s) decision to allow Ga's contest in fishing communities as "face saving".
Bernard Allotey Jacobs said it is a strategy introduced by the NPP to gain favour from the Ga’s after their ethnocentric comments as far as leadership of the country is concerned.
“Has the NPP forgotten their tribal comments they made to the lovely people of the Ga’s telling them that in as much as most of the lands and leadership in the country are Ga’s, they should not always be allowed to take positions in the country. Such comments to me did not go down well for the Ga’s.
His was reacting to the recent proposal by the NPP to allow candidates from the Greater Accra region contest in predominantly Ga speaking areas in the country.
This is part of the party's strategy to win more seats in the Greater Accra region ahead of the 2016 general elections. But in an interview on Adom FM Tuesday, Allotey Jacobs opined that though the policy introduced by the NPP is a good strategy, it will take some time for Ga people to forget about their ethnocentric comments.
“That policy by the NPP will really take many years to be fulfilled or better still it won’t even work at all if they refuse to work at it.
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