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Former President John Mahama <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former\nPresident John Mahama has taken a swipe at some opinion leaders in the country\nby calling them hypocrites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr.\nMahama who lost the 2016 election in a miserable"},"modified":"2019-02-04T13:53:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:53:28","slug":"mahama-attacks-opinion-leaders-dailyguide-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/04\/mahama-attacks-opinion-leaders-dailyguide-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama Attacks Opinion Leaders – DailyGuide Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n

Former President John Mahama <\/strong><\/p>\n

Former
\nPresident John Mahama has taken a swipe at some opinion leaders in the country
\nby calling them hypocrites.<\/p>\n

Mr.
\nMahama who lost the 2016 election in a miserable fashion thinks the opinion
\nleaders are not taking on the Nana Akufo-Addo led government the way they
\nshould as they did during his time.<\/p>\n

According
\nto him, those \u201chypocrite\u201d opinion leaders only condemned some selected issues
\nwhen it happened under his administration but have remained silent when similar
\nissues occur under the current government.<\/p>\n

Mr.
\nMahama who could be said to be desperate to return to power rhetorically asks the
\nopinion leaders if they think the NPP will be in power forever.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe
\nproblem with Ghana is the hypocrisy of some of our opinion leaders. Anytime NDC
\nis in power, they are always very vocal.When something happens: \u2018This is
\nwrong\u2019, and they are condemning it. But as soon as their preferred government
\ncomes into power, everything is right\u201d, the former President stated.<\/p>\n

Mr.
\nMahama was addressing party supporters at Battor in the North Tongu
\nConstituency as part of his tour of the Volta Region to canvass support to win the
\nflagbearer position of the NDC.<\/p>\n

Although
\nhe fell short of mentioning names, his comment appears to be a dig aimed at the
\nChairman of the National Peace Council, Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante who called
\non him to apologise to Ghanaians for saying the NDC will match the NPP
\nboot-for-boot with violence in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

The
\nFormer President who appears to be inciting the NDC supporters towards violence
\nsays the NDC will match the NPP boot-for-boot in the 2020 elections if the
\ngovernment attempts to intimidate and harass NDC supporters with violence.<\/p>\n

His
\ncomment was in response to some incidents of violence at the La-Bawaleshie JHS
\npolling station during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election where some NDC
\nsupporters were allegedly shot, with the party blaming the NPP for being behind
\nthe shootings.<\/p>\n

He
\nsaid the NDC has revolutionary roots and no party in the country can beat it
\nwhen it comes to unleashing violence.<\/p>\n

This,
\nhowever, did not go down well with Rev. Prof. Asante who said the former
\nPresident who was once a head of state and still aspiring to be one ought to be
\ncircumspect with his utterances.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

BY Gibril Abdul Razak<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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