{"id":594237,"date":"2019-02-25T11:44:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"<br><p>The former president John Dramani Mahama on a campaign platform. He is accused of vote-buying in the recently conducted NDC presidential primaries.<\/p><div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 -->\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><s"},"modified":"2019-02-25T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:44:42","slug":"not-vote-buying-if-govt-feeds-voters-in-2020-mahama-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/25\/not-vote-buying-if-govt-feeds-voters-in-2020-mahama-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Not vote-buying if govt feeds voters in 2020 &#8211; Mahama spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The former president John Dramani Mahama on a campaign platform. He is accused of vote-buying in the recently conducted NDC presidential primaries.<\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">It is not vote-buying if the government decides to feed all voters during the 2020 presidential elections, the spokesperson for the recently elected presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress has said. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Denying accusations of vote-buying leveled against former president John Dramani Mahama in the NDC\u2019s February 23 presidential primaries, James Agyenim Boateng held that once the feeding was not limited to only supporters of his candidate it should not be misconstrued as vote buying. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-1 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Speaking on the Joy FM Super Morning Show [SMS] Monday, he further argued that if the government did this for all electorates during a general election, the opposition may be wrong to fault it as bribing the electorates. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Over the weekend, former president John Dramani Mahama commanded a resounding victory of 95%, to win the NDC presidential candidate ahead of six\u00a0others. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-2 --><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RXLh_swgumg\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The poll, manned by the Ghana Police Service and organized by the National Electoral Commission, has generally been rated as peaceful and well-organised.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">But an allegation of vote-buying has been raised by Mr. Goosie Tanoh, one of the six\u00a0other aspirants. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><b>The full story can be gleaned here:<\/b>\u00a0<b>NDC Decides: Goosie Tanoh&#8217;s vote-buying allegations, other hot videos<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">But Mr. Boateng, who is a former Deputy Minister of Information gave further\u00a0clarity to explain what happened on the subject.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">According to him,\u00a0his boss was not directly involved and it only humane to feed voters who had traveled long\u00a0distances to come and vote. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">\u201cThere was only one former President. He had former appointees who were on the ground who provided food and drinks to help the Mahama campaign.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">He added,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">\u201cGhana is not Accra. People traveled long hours to the voting centres to vote. It was therefore important that we had no casualties. 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He is accused of vote-buying in the recently conducted NDC presidential primaries. It is not vote-buying if the government decides to feed all voters during the 2020 presidential elections, the spokesperson for the recently elected presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress has said. 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