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Don’t blame Mahama for Akufo-Addo and NPP’s sins – NDC campaign spokesperson

Former President John Dramani Mahama.
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The campaign spokesperson for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) says “John Mahama as leader and flagbearer of the NDC cannot be blamed for the sins of the NPP and the government during the registration of voters, especially in the strongholds of the NDC”.

“We have taken note of an orchestrated attempt by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its General Secretary to demonise former President John Dramani Mahama after the latter had urged the government to back down from its ethnic bigotry and voter suppression agenda in the just-ended registration of voters.”

His statements follow NPP’s press conference on Monday, August 10, on the just ended voters’ registration.

Speaking at the conference, John Boadu said the NPP expects John Mahama to apologise to Ghanaians for raising ethnic sentiments during the exercise.

“Having initially bastardized the voter registration, John Mahama has now conceded that the exercise has been successful. So, we, in the NPP expect him to apologise to the nation for the dangerous ethnic sentiments he raised, jeopardizing the security of the state with unwarranted attacks,” the General Secretary of the NPP said.

John Boadu: “Having failed in their desperate attempt to stop the EC from compiling a new voters’ register, the NDC has very characteristically resorted to the dangerous ethnocentric agenda through outright fabrication and fear-mongering in what they claim to be ethnic disenfranchisement.”

“John Mahama’s allegation that many soldiers were deployed to the Volta region ostensibly to intimidate Voltarians cannot be supported by facts. The facts are that the military was deployed months ago patrol our borders for variety of security-related reasons including prevention of terrorism and enforcement of COVID-19 containment measures. The soldiers were not only deployed in our Eastern borders but also in the north as well as the western enclave. As we speak, a number of Togolese and Nigerians have either been convicted or have their cases pending at the Keta Circuit Court, charged with registering for a Ghanaian voter ID card.”

But James Agyenim-Boateng, NDC Campaign Spokesperson, in a statement says, “John Mahama owes it a duty to call the government out for its divisive and ethnic bigotry in the run-up to, and during, the voter registration exercise.”

“It is trite knowledge, and video evidence abound on social media, that heavily-armed uniformed personnel and in some cases NPP thugs operating under the cover of National Security, were deployed by the government to harass and intimidate eligible voters in the strongholds of the NDC, including the Volta and Oti Regions, as part of a grand agenda to disenfranchise the people and thereby suppress votes in those areas,” the statement on Tuesday, August 11, said.

“The shameful and unfortunate conduct in Banda where armed military personnel were deployed to block a road, intimidate and physically stop some people from going to a registration centre is an issue that we have not forgotten.”

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