The
Northern regional umbrella group of the NPP have fired a sharp response
to issues that came up in President Mahama's nation wide tour which
began in Tamale, the Northern regional capital over the weekend.
The
party first and foremost described the "Changing Lives" tour as an
"apparent shaky reaction to the widely publicized successful rise and
build tour" by its torchbearer Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo a couple of
months ago
The statement signed by the regional communications
director Mohammed Abdul Kudus condemned what they termed as "Abuse of
incumbency" where he claimed that as part of preparations to make the
just ended rally appear successful, government forced each district to
cough out ghc2000 as contribution fee and 10 buses to transport party
supporters to the rally ground
According to the statement
believes it was rather a disturbing situation because "the report comes
at a time assemblies are struggling to procure basic items such as
stationary to run rudimentary responsibilities"
"At this time government is burdening the poor citizenry with ridiculous tariffs and charges" the statement said
The statement added smacked of irresponsibility to ceaselessly dissipate scarce resources in this callous
The party also flayed the President for comments he made during the rally
The President was reported to have said "I am President today because I am in NDC, this wouldn't have happen in another party"
The party said the comments were fraught with ethnocentric and regionalism innuendoes and frown upon the 1992 constitution
It said the statement was regrettable to had come from the president.
The
statement ended saying "Indeed this manifest unprecedented abysmal
performance of this government, given the enormous resources in their
seven years in office, could ignite some desperate politicking to
perpetuate it's stay in government but John Mahama and the ndc must be
urged to be measured and stay within acceptable limits.
Ethnic
politicking is a recipe for chaos for the otherwise peaceful ghana and
all must not shy away from calling the president to order" |
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