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Mahama must apologise for tribal comments - MFWA
President John Mahama told party supporters in the Upper East Region over the weekend that their best choice for president is a candidate from the north and he is a better representative than the NPP who will never give any northerner the opportunity to become a president.
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According to the MFWA, the comments are divisive and unfortunate.
“The MFWA considers the comments of President Mahama highly divisive and unfortunate and condemns same in no uncertain terms. As a leader of the country, President Mahama is expected to act in ways that will unite rather than divide the people of this country.”
“The Foundation further urged political figures to avoid the use of “hate speech, ethnocentric and divisive comments in their political campaigns.”
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The statement from the Foundation comes on the back of some exchanges by the leaders of the two leading political parties in Ghana; the governing National Democratic Congress and the opposition New Patriotic Party.
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The running mate of the NPP, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia subsequently argued that John Mahama is also not a good example of a president northerners should be proud of.
He told supporters in the Upper East Region that John Mahama has given northerners a bad name by presiding over corruption all these years.
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The comments from the two have since been widely condemned by some sections of the public.
Below is the full statement from the MFWA:
Prez Mahama’s Comments: Ethnocentric, Divisive and Condemnable Over the weekend, while campaigning in the Upper West Region, the President of Ghana and leader of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), His Excellency John Dramani Mahama opted to use very ethnocentric and divisive campaign language.The President, while addressing party supporters in Lawra as part of his campaign tour of the Region, made comments to suggest that the New Patroitic Party (NPP) only “uses northerners” to win power and “dump” them afterwards. The President alleged that if vice-presidential candidate of the NPP Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia decides to contest as presidential candidate in the NPP, he is likely to be rejected by the party.He then went on to cite the NPP presidential race in 2008 in which 16 other candidates contested the then vice-president of the erstwhile President Kuffour administration, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, for the Presidential candidacy of the party.President Mahama also alleged that unlike the NPP, the NDC gives everyone the chance to ascend to the high office including northerners and it is that opportunity in the NDC that has made it possible for him to become president after the demise of the late President, John Evans Atta Mills.The MFWA considers the comments of President Mahama highly divisive and unfortunate and condemns same in no uncertain terms. As a leader of the country, President Mahama is expected to act in ways that will unite rather than divide the people of this country.The MFWA therefore calls on the President to publicly apologise for his comments. We take this opportunity to urge other political figures to avoid the use of hate speech, ethnocentric and divisive comments in their political campaigns.
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