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Mahama is not a god - Kwesi Pratt

“If we attempt to deify him [President Mahama], you give ammunition to his opponents to crash him because it is very easy to prove that he is not a deity.”

 

He said deifying the President will play him into the hands of his opponents who will capitalize on it for political expediency.

Mr. Pratt Jnr was of the view that once the President’s opponents are able to prove that “he is not a deity that whole effort and verification could lead to the detriment of the President.”

Some members of government and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have been describing the President as incorruptible.

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This follows the revelation that in 2012, President John Mahama received a brand new Ford Expedition vehicle by a Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe after he was given the contract to construct the $650,000 Ghana Embassy wall in the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou.

Commenting on the manner in which government communicators have portrayed the President in the midst of the scandal, Mr. Pratt Jnr on Joy FM said: “Sometimes I listen to government communicators and I begin to wonder whether the person they are speaking about is my friend for a long time that they are talking about. It is no secret; he is my friend for a very long time. Sometimes I think it is not President John Mahama they are describing.”

He stressed that President John Mahama is human and is “not infallible and so on and there should be no attempt to deify him.”

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