Former President John Mahama has taken a swipe at some opinion leaders in the country by calling them hypocrites.
Mr. Mahama who lost the 2016 election in a miserable fashion thinks the opinion leaders are not taking on the Nana Akufo-Addo led government the way they should as they did during his time.
According to him, those “hypocrite” opinion leaders only condemned some selected issues when it happened under his administration but have remained silent when similar issues occur under the current government.
Mr. Mahama who could be said to be desperate to return to power rhetorically asks the opinion leaders if they think the NPP will be in power forever.
“The problem with Ghana is the hypocrisy of some of our opinion leaders. Anytime NDC is in power, they are always very vocal.When something happens: ‘This is wrong’, and they are condemning it. But as soon as their preferred government comes into power, everything is right”, the former President stated.
Mr. Mahama was addressing party supporters at Battor in the North Tongu Constituency as part of his tour of the Volta Region to canvass support to win the flagbearer position of the NDC.
Although he fell short of mentioning names, his comment appears to be a dig aimed at the Chairman of the National Peace Council, Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante who called on him to apologise to Ghanaians for saying the NDC will match the NPP boot-for-boot with violence in the 2020 election.
The Former President who appears to be inciting the NDC supporters towards violence says the NDC will match the NPP boot-for-boot in the 2020 elections if the government attempts to intimidate and harass NDC supporters with violence.
His comment was in response to some incidents of violence at the La-Bawaleshie JHS polling station during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election where some NDC supporters were allegedly shot, with the party blaming the NPP for being behind the shootings.
He said the NDC has revolutionary roots and no party in the country can beat it when it comes to unleashing violence.
This, however, did not go down well with Rev. Prof. Asante who said the former President who was once a head of state and still aspiring to be one ought to be circumspect with his utterances.
He described the statements as unfortunate and called on Mr. Mahama to apologise to the nation for creating fear in the heart of the people.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak, DGN
