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General News of Saturday, February 16, 2019
Source: dailyguidenetwork.com
2019-02-16
Former President, John Dramani Mahama
Former President John Dramani Mahama congratulated the Yaw Osafo-Maafo prime minister for calling him a non-patriot after showing members of the diplomatic community the video on the by-election. Ayawaso West Wuogon.
Mr. Osafo-Maafo had stated that the video footage of the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election shootout in part of Ghana's diplomatic community was abnormal.
The Prime Minister believes that the action of the former president is to exchange the country with the outside world.
"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 Ghana in black is simply not acceptable, "said the minister. Osafo-Maafo said.
But Mr. Mahama, in a statement issued by his spokesman, James Agyenim-Boateng, reacting to the Prime Minister's comments, said he had acted appropriately, urging Mr. Osafo-Maafo to focus on the treatment of "thugs" of the New Patriotic Party violence in the by-election.
According to Mr. Mahama, "It is shameful and hypocritical for Mr. Osafo-Maafo to have had the temerity to describe Mr. Mahama's meeting with diplomats as he did, especially when the Prime Minister still sits on the Akufo-Addo government. under the supervision of which gendarmes armed with weapons and police SWAT Hunter vehicles were dropped on voters. "
"It is interesting to note that when the new Patriotic Party (NPP), of which Mr. Osafo-Maafo is a member, went to a twenty-first century by-election as he was engaged in a conquest of the sixteenth century, the Prime Minister did not find it "unpatriotic and shameful". "
According to him, "the statement of senior government officials that the partial election of Ayawaso West Wuogon" remains even more disturbing is "even more disturbing".
The despicable acts of pro-government thugs, he said, left dozens of people wounded and maimed as a result of beatings and gun shots.
He explained that "for the avoidance of doubt, former President Mahama had acted in a fair and appropriate manner by taking a preventive step to mobilize public support in order to save Ghana from the impending disaster fueled by the NPP and its thugs. before the 2020 elections ".
In addition to reaffirming the commitment of the National Democratic Congress (NEC) to hold free, fair and peaceful elections, its meeting with diplomats simply allowed to share information that was already in the public domain.
"If this were" unpatriotic and shameful ", as Mr. Osafo-Maafo said, he must then bring the blame on the doorstep of those who sponsored the burglary of the NPP on the day of the day. by-election. "
"It must also be emphasized that it is not unusual that governments, the opposition and other key opinion leaders regularly inform stakeholders, including the international community, of key events." occurred in the country. Indeed, this practice is not foreign to the NPP. "
"Instead of Mr. Osafo-Maafo and his colleagues worry about who is informed, they should focus on arresting the perpetrators of the chaos and bring them to justice."
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