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NDC clarifies Vanderpuije's ‘Presidency not for short people’ comment
Ghana’s Youth and Sports Minister Nii Lante Vanderpuije has said being a president is not about “how short one is” or “the kind of spectacles” one wears.
Incumbent MP, Nii Lante Vanderpuije
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According to him, the race to the Flagstaff House is about the “love for one’s country and its people and finding solutions that will benefit citizens for the peace of the country.”
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Odododiodio was addressing a gathering at the official campaign launch of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Sunday, 14 August, in Cape Coast, the capital of the Central Region.
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But in a response, Joyce Bawa Mogtari said the minister’s comments were taken out of context, saying “Hon. Nii Lante Vanderpuye used a figure of speech within a political context.”
“I will leave it strictly in that context and I will not want to dwell on it. If you were reproducing the whole of the statement, you will not pick just that out of the context, you would have used it in the context in which he used it absolutely,” she told Accra-based Joy FM.
Joyce Bawa Mogtari further assured that the party will ensure a clean campaign devoid of insults and personal attacks.
“We will be setting a very good example leading a campaign that is issue-based; a campaign that uses good and acceptable language because the president himself has shown this respect for each and every citizen of this country and we will be emulating that all important example,” Joyce Bawa stressed.
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