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Former President John Dramani Mahama has asked the ruling New Patriotic Party not to take the ‘leniency’ of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to ‘its weakness’.

He said the NDC are experts in ‘unleashing violence’ and that if the ruling “government cannot protect our people, we will advise ourselves”

The former President was reacting to a clash that occurred at the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency (Bawaleshie Presby School polling centre ) during its by-election on Thursday which saw NPP’s Lydia Ahassan as the winner.

The NDC pulled out of the by-election after seven of its members got injured following a shooting incident at Bawaleshie Presby School polling centre. In the midst of this clash, Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram constituency, Sam George was slapped by one of the security officers.

Reacting to this while speaking to party supporters in Adaklu, Mr. Mahama said: “NDC has revolutionary rules and that when it comes to unleashing violence, nobody can beat us in unleashing violence; it is just that we midwifed Ghana’s democracy and so we must be the first to respect Ghana’s democracy and that is why we are acting as a party that is very docile and respecting the rule of law but if we believe that the government cannot protect our people…then we would have to advise ourselves”