Lawyer Edudzi Tamakloe, Greater Accra deputy regional organizer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who was also one of the lawyers for Montie 3 cautioned “Sammy Awuku and his other youth organisers particularly in Greater Accra that they must desist from this crude attitude of getting their supporters to hoot at the President. It is contrive, it is dangerous, it is provocative and it can be repeated and they should stop it before it degenerates into something very messy”.

Hundreds of traders and residents on Tuesday shocked President John Dramani Mahama at Kokompe, a suburb of Accra by waving the change sign after the president stormed the area to campaign. Some hooted at him and screamed “change, change, change.”

 

According to Mr Tamakloe who was contributing to a panel discussion on Radio Gold’s Alhaji and Alhaji, the act of hooting at the President can be ‘repeated’ by another group of people; hence needs to be condemned.

“Let me issue what I will call a warning to our political opponents; particularly the New Patriotic Party. I believe that the kind of politics we do should be the politics that allows for constructive engagement; where political parties should have the opportunity to freely express their association with any leader that they like. But where in this case; a political party decides that the old and crude method of doing politics where the president goes for a visit only for political parties to mobilise their supporters to hoot at him; it is not only dangerous and provocative, it is very crude and ought not to be entertained…” he said