John Mahama has habit of inciting ethnic groups against NPP: Mustapha Abdul-Hamid
A deputy campaign manager for the NPP, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has accused the former president John Mahama of inciting ethnic groups in Ghana against the NPP
A deputy campaign manager for the New Patriotic Party, Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has accused the former president John Mahama of inciting ethnic groups in the country against the NPP.
Dr Abdul-Hamid says recent ethnocentric statements by the former president are unacceptable and uncalled for.
āWe have all seen how former president John Mahama called some people āAkyem sakawa peopleā. How can a former president of this country call a group of people sakawa people? Itās so unacceptable of a former president.ā
At a news conference in Accra, Abdul-Hamid questioned why the former president would include an ethnic group in his statement.
Whatās in a naysayer?
On Friday at a meeting with the Catholic Bishopsā Conference at Jubilee House in Accra, President Akufo-Addo expressed misgivings about the description by the former president and called on all to condemn the statement.
The former president countered on Saturday, arguing that President Akufo-Addo should stay out of the argument.
āIn any case, President Nana Akufo-Addo has lost the right to complain,ā Mahama said. āHe was an opposition leader who called presidents before anything you can imagine, including Professor Do Little.
āI do not want to repeat some of the other things he has said. He is the president who has called his critics naysayers and Jeremiahs. I do not understand on what standard he can be offended because he has precedence of name-calling,ā Mahama said.
Incitement
But Abdul-Hamid said Mahama wants to whip up ethnic sentiments to win the December polls.
āāThis is not the first time John Mahama is doing this. During the voter registration exercise, he was in the Volta Region inciting Voltarians against the NPP. And this āAkyem sakawa peopleā, why is John Mahama doing this?ā
Abdul-Hamid, who is also the Minister of Inner-City and Zongo Development, called on well-meaning Ghanaians to ignore Mahama and ethnocentric statements as the December polls draw closer.
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