Former President John Mahama
Former
President John Mahama has taken a swipe at some opinion leaders in the country
by calling them hypocrites.
Mr.
Mahama who lost the 2016 election in a miserable fashion thinks the opinion
leaders are not taking on the Nana Akufo-Addo led government the way they
should as they did during his time.
According
to him, those “hypocrite” opinion leaders only condemned some selected issues
when it happened under his administration but have remained silent when similar
issues occur under the current government.
Mr.
Mahama who could be said to be desperate to return to power rhetorically asks the
opinion leaders if they think the NPP will be in power forever.
“The
problem with Ghana is the hypocrisy of some of our opinion leaders. Anytime NDC
is in power, they are always very vocal.When something happens: ‘This is
wrong’, and they are condemning it. But as soon as their preferred government
comes into power, everything is right”, the former President stated.
Mr.
Mahama was addressing party supporters at Battor in the North Tongu
Constituency as part of his tour of the Volta Region to canvass support to win the
flagbearer position of the NDC.
Although
he fell short of mentioning names, his comment appears to be a dig aimed at the
Chairman of the National Peace Council, Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante who called
on him to apologise to Ghanaians for saying the NDC will match the NPP
boot-for-boot with violence in the 2020 election.
The
Former President who appears to be inciting the NDC supporters towards violence
says the NDC will match the NPP boot-for-boot in the 2020 elections if the
government attempts to intimidate and harass NDC supporters with violence.
His
comment was in response to some incidents of violence at the La-Bawaleshie JHS
polling station during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election where some NDC
supporters were allegedly shot, with the party blaming the NPP for being behind
the shootings.
He
said the NDC has revolutionary roots and no party in the country can beat it
when it comes to unleashing violence.
This,
however, did not go down well with Rev. Prof. Asante who said the former
President who was once a head of state and still aspiring to be one ought to be
circumspect with his utterances.
He described the statements as unfortunate and called on Mr. Mahama to apologise to the nation for creating fear in the heart of the people.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak
