{"id":276129,"date":"2011-02-16T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T11:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=52478"},"modified":"2011-02-16T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T11:42:20","slug":"clash-over-all-die-be-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/16\/clash-over-all-die-be-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Clash Over \u2018All Die Be Die\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The famous \u2018all die be die\u2019 comment by the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) refuses to die a natural death, as it continues to generate heat in political circles.<\/p>\n

The latest of these is the clash between a leading member of the NPP, who is aspiring to become the party\u2019s parliamentary candidate in the Ablekuma South constituency, Ursula Owusu, and Presidential Aide, Stanislav Xoese Dogbe.<\/p>\n

Ursula appeared on Metro TV\u2019s \u2018Good Morning Ghana\u2019 show wearing a branded T-shirt with the bold inscription \u2018ALL DIE BE DIE,\u2019 incurring the anger of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n

This follows calls by NDC for the NPP presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to apologise for comments he made at a meeting with party faithful at Koforidua in the Eastern region, urging them to be bold–a comment which he repeated in several other meetings in the Greater Accra. Nana Addo is now in the Upper East region, and he is expected to repeat the same message.<\/p>\n

The wearing of the T-shirt by Ursula seemed to have provoked Stan Dogbe, a man who until recently did not have his name in the official list of presidential appointees sent to Parliament. According to him, Ursula who happens to be the vice president of the Federation of International Women Lawyers (FIDA), was only trying to court what he described as cheap popularity for herself to lobby for a ministerial appointment should Nana Addo become President after the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n

Stan Dogbe of the infamous \u2018Dogbegate\u2019 scandal told Accra-based Citi FM why Ursula Owusu should be wearing a T\u2019 Shirt with that inscription.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs for Ursula, she thinks that being boisterous and overly supportive of whatever Nana Addo says whether good or bad is what would give her the popularity that she requires to win her parliamentary seat or get her a ministerial appointment in Nana Addo\u2019s government. I am sorry Nana is nowhere near the Presidency in 2012 or 2016 and she ought to realize that this country would have to remain stable before they come back to power,\u201d he charged.<\/p>\n

But Ursula dismissed Stan\u2019s criticisms insisting that there was nothing wrong with the T-shirt she displayed on the programme, indicating that she wore the dress in response to the NPP presidential candidate\u2019s call for party members to be bold and defend their right in the 2012 elections, since the NPP would not succumb to the intimidations of the NDC government.<\/p>\n

She therefore accused Stan of rather being the person who was scheming to win cheap popularity and recognition in the Mills administration.<\/p>\n

The NPP stalwart thus urged Stan to show some element of respect to Nana Addo who fought against the brute dictatorship of the AFRC and PNDC of former President Rawlings.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re ready for NDC<\/p>\n

Adding his voice, Boakye Agyarko, Campaign Manager for Nana Akufo-Addo said the NPP was more than ready to meet the NDC boot-for-boot in 2012, adding they would no longer sit in laxity for their members to be beaten by NDC goons as happened in Chereponi, Atiwa, Akwatia and Agbogbloshie.<\/p>\n

Mr. Agyarko told DAILY GUIDE yesterday that \u201cwe should stop this hypocrisy. NDC has visited violence upon this nation many a time. We refuse to be intimidated this time round. We are going to stand our grounds. Let the NDC, given their character, do their worst, we will be ready for them but we will not run.\u201d<\/p>\n

He therefore turned down a request by the NDC for Nana Addo to apologise for the \u201call die be die\u201d comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou apologise for a wrong. The NDC has to convince us what the wrong is ethnocentrism. That is a figment of their imagination. If you listen to what Nana Addo said, he said \u2018ye se yen Akan fuo.\u2019 Do you understand that, it means somebody told Nana Addo or they say? It is not Nana Addo saying \u2018Akan fuo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Until then, Mr. Agyarko noted, \u201cyou don\u2019t render an apology because someone insists you render an apology.\u00a0 \u201cNana Addo is not inciting anybody. He is not asking people to jump onto the streets with cudgels and cutlasses to attack the NDC.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, he said, all the NPP leader did was to send a message to the NDC that \u201cif they continue in the fashion they have always done in Chereponi, Atiwa and all of those areas and if they believe that we are cowards and each time they will attack us we will run away, no. They will be wrong; this time round we will not run away\u201d.<\/p>\n

For him, his colleagues in the NDC are upset because \u201cnow their usual victim is ready to face them, the school-yard bully, that\u2019s all it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Agyarko recalled how his younger brother and former Chief Executive of the Food and Drugs Board (FDB), Emmanuel Agayrko, was nearly lynched by members of the NDC in the year 2008 when he stood as NPP parliamentary candidate for Lower Manya constituency in the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n

A night before the 2008 general elections, Mr. Agyarko narrated that \u201cseven armed men, armed with pump action guns driving the vehicle of the NDC MP, drove into his house (and) started firing.<\/p>\n

\u201cLuckily, my brother was not there but my sisters and other relatives who were in that house were recklessly beaten and most of them injured\u201d he said, noting that \u201cthe attack is imminent again. They have threatened to attack him again.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that regard, the NPP Campaign Manager could not but say \u201cthe question I want to ask the NDC and all those who are saying that Nana Addo shouldn\u2019t have said what he said is \u2018what is the advice they should give my brother when the attack comes. What advice do they want to give my brother; that he should run away, is that what they are going to ask him to do when the next attack comes?\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that it would be important for those calling for the NPP presidential candidate to apologise to understand the context in which Nana Addo was speaking, stressing, \u201cIf the NDC insists on lying by taking part of the sentence away in its attempt to incriminate Nana Addo, shame on them.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Charles Takyi-Boadu<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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