Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw
Owusu
Friday, August
19, 2016
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has observed that it is President John
Mahama and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) appointees who deserve a gold
medal for insults and not the opposition.
At the NDC national campaign launch at the Cape Coast Stadium on
Sunday, the president launched a blistering attack on the NPP, saying the
party, under the leadership of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has won an “Olympic
gold medal in insults.”
The party replied the president and his party in a statement issued
in Accra and signed by the Director of Communications, Nana Akomea.
It posited that Mr. Mahama has a track-record for making
unpresidential remarks which do not help in nation-building.
“President Mahama claimed last Sunday, 14th August, in Cape Coast
that the NPP will win a medal for insults at the Olympics. For such an aspiring
Olympic referee, it is a shame that President Mahama has not taken into account
his own leadership in this competition of insults,” the statement underscored.
The NPP further recounted, “President Mahama at the last NDC
congress in Kumasi before the Cape Coast campaign launch diagnosed the then
general secretary of the CPP, Mr lvor Greenstreet, as suffering from ‘incurable
myopia.’
“President Mahama had gone on to tell Ghanaians last year that he
would not take criticisms from anyone who has never been president before, and
that the only people he would take criticisms from are former presidents
Rawlings and Kufuor,” he added.
“So the good people of Ghana, who elected President Mahama, cannot
be fit to criticize him because they have never been president before. There
can be no greater insult on Ghanaians. If anyone was looking for a gold medal
for insults, this is it.”
Vote Buying Antics
The NPP also said that apart from the insults President Mahama heaps
on Ghanaians, the Ghana Integrity initiative (GII) has accused him of vote
buying and abuse of incumbency.
“This GII accusation has followed President Mahama's open
distribution of large quantities of outboard motors for fishing at an NDC
campaign event last Monday, right at the start of his official campaign.
So
after all these years, President Mahama cannot distinguish between an official
government occasion and a partisan political party campaign event and
occasion.”
The NPP called on “all well-meaning Ghanaians to condemn this act of
President Mahama at this stage of our democratic development.”
2012 Plunder
The release reminded Ghanaians that in the 2012 elections, President
Mahama engaged in this same vote buying exercise, adding, “In pursuit of this,
his government ran up a record and unprecedented deficit of $4.2 billion
dollars (12%) in fiscal year 2012 - the highest in the history of the fourth
republic.”
According to the NPP, “It is this reckless deficit in 2012 that
caused the weak cedi to become by mid 2014 the worst depreciated currency in
the whole wide world. It is that record deficit in 2012 that caused donors to
suspend assistance to Ghana for fiscal years 2013 and 2014.”
The NPP added, “It is this reckless deficit that caused President
Mahama in 2014 to run to the IMF for policy credibility. President Mahama seems
to be starting on this same path of vote buying again, right at the start of
his 2016 campaign.
“For a government that claims to have delivered so much development
to the people of Ghana and whose ‘one-touch’ victory is assured, why this
resort to abuse of incumbency and bribery of the electorate?” Or is it the case
that President Mahama discovers charity when elections are due?”
The NPP charged, “Ghanaians must rise up and save our economy from
further destruction by President Mahama by showing him and his government the
red card on 7th December.”
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