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General News of Saturday, February 16, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-02-16
John Mahama was joined by NDC leaders at the meeting with diplomats
Former President John Mahama's office has criticized his senior minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo, for criticizing the meeting of the National Democratic Congress with foreign diplomats in the by-election of Ayawaso West Wuogon.
Osafo Maafo said Mahama's meeting with diplomats on Wednesday to share CND's point of view on the confusion at the by-election was shameful and unpatriotic.
But Mr. Mahama's office said, "It is shameful and hypocritical for Mr. Osafo-Maafo to have had the temerity to discourage Mr. Mahama's meeting with diplomats as he did."
The statement added that it was particularly hypocritical because "the prime minister still sits in the Akufo-Addo government under the surveillance of state-sponsored thugs and SWAT police vehicles were dropped on the electors".
The NDC contends that the violence of the day was sponsored by the state and said it feared an escalation of such disturbances before the 2020 elections.
The statement said Mahama "acted fairly and appropriately by taking a precautionary measure to mobilize public support to save Ghana from the impending disaster fueled by the NPP and its thugs before the 2020 elections."
He added that the practice of opposition parties informing the international community "is not alien to the NPP".
What did Osafo Maafo say?
The Prime Minister was very scathing in his badessment of Mr. Mahama's decision to meet with the foreign diplomatic corps.
He insisted that Mr. Mahama's actions were unpleasant and unjustified.
"It's the least we can say, it's unpatriotic and shameful. It's because if he brought Ghanaians together, call them Ghanaian academics, professionals, or businessmen and he was talking about issues that were of concern to him, I would have no problem. He is a former head of state, then a very important opinion leader, but gathering foreigners and trying to paint the black of Ghana is simply not acceptable. "
Mr. Osafo Maafo also asked why Mr. Mahama was trying to dispel the confusion.
"What is he really looking for?" What does the former president Mahama want to describe? Why does he want to paint Ghana in black when in reality there is nothing to paint in black? There was violence, it did not happen in a polling station, but in the home of the parliamentary candidate, far from any polling station. We do not know who shot. Why would you want it to look like a national disaster? "
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