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Haruna Attah's ethnocentric claim senseless - Hackman

Ghana’s ambassador to Namibia and Botswana Harruna Attah, in a press statement accused Hackman Owusu Agyemang of making anti-Muslim comments against the then Vice President when he decided to contest for the flagbearer position of the NPP.

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The NPP stalwart described the allegations as a joke on Accra-based Class FM. “I thought that was a bit of a joke because the chronology of events, sequence and piecing together do not make a shred of sense...according to what he [Harruna Attah] is saying it might have taken place somewhere around 2007 close to a decade, so what makes him come now at this point in time to try to muddy the waters and put people’s names into public opprobrium.”

“I don’t remember discussing this with him and in any case, I don’t remember whether it was before or post elections,” he added.

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He further explained that if they were against the former Vice President contesting for flagbearer of the NPP they would not have accepted the then candidate Kufuor’s choice of him as a running mate.

“Anything happens and the person (vice-president) can be president, and if we do not want somebody to become president, why then do we go and choose them [as vice presidential candidates]”.

“Choosing a running mate is more than ethnicity, but someone capable of being a president when the president is not available.”

Ghana’s ambassador to Namibia and Botswana Harruna Attah, in a press statement on Wednesday, accused Nana Addo of saying that a non-Akan will never lead the NPP. He also said that Hackman Owusu Agyemang also made anti-Muslim comments against the then Vice President when he decided tot contest for the flagbearer position of the NPP.

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He said “Mr Hackman Owusu Agyeman, going beyond Nana Akufo-Addo’s ethnicity, used religion as his anti-Aliu stance. He confronted me in the presence of a witness: ‘Abdul-Rahman, with a nation of about 70% Christians, do you think it will be fair to have a Muslim president?’

“He was referring to Alhaji Aliu Mahama, a Muslim. I answered calmly that in all the major hotspots of the world, it is when some groups think they are dominant and go on to marginalise groups they regard as minorities that the minorities also rise up to assert themselves, by whatever means.”

Meanwhile, the NPP has denied these allegations saying no such meeting took place between Haruna Attah and Nana Addo.

Haruna Attah has however asked everybody he mentioned in the statement to swear on the Bible that his (Attah’s) claims are false.

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