Analyst likens Mahama's media cabal comments to Trump's

Abu Mubarik 07:23 - 23 October 2016

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President Mahama in an interview with Ovation Magazine claimed that a "certain group has taken control of the media in Ghana and it makes it difficult for people to discern the truth. So as much as you are putting out the information, it is either being blocked or distorted."

A Financial analyst Sydney Casley Hayford has likened president John Mahamas comments about a media cabal blocking or distorting his message to the electorate to the explosive comments of US Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump.

Trump, who is running for president in the USA, has accused the media of seeking to rig the election in favour of his rival, Hillary Clinton.

He is often quoted discrediting the the US media as corrupt and bias.

Casley Hayford, a known critic of the Mahama administration, slammed the president's statement, adding that the governing party controls the national media platform.

He was speaking on Citi FM news analysis show "The Big Issue" on Saturday.

“When you make statements like this and you use these nefarious cabal, these nefarious group of people who are not inidentifiable then you are behaving like Jerry John Rawlings and you are behaving like a Donal Trump who is calling for a complete destruction of the world because we will be voting Hillary Clinton into authority," he said.

“When people don’t like to accept what is the fact and what is the real truth and you try and break up what civil society and sensible people are trying to establish in the world then you create so much confusion,” he added.