Former President John Dramani Mahama has been asked to lift the standard of politics in the country by avoiding statements not deemed fit of an ex-president.
During the NDC’s ‘Unity Walk’ over the weekend at Wa, in the Upper East region, Mr Mahama claimed the “incompetence” of the current Akufo-Addo government was so bad that the president needed the trending “Obinim Sticker" to enable him deliver on his promises.
“The President and his government need an Obinim sticker to deliver on its (sic) promises,” he mocked.
But Mr Mahama has come under fire from a section of the populace who believe his utterances in recent times are unbecoming of a former president who is expected to help elevate the political discourse in the country, as a statesman.
According to the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, Kingsley Nyarko, the comments from Mr Mahama was distasteful and do not “reflect a Statesman.”
“I think his handlers are doing him a great disservice. If he continues with comments like this, he will be exposing himself to public ridicule all the time,” Dr Nyarko told the Daily Statesman.
According to Dr Nyarko, former President Mahama is not only embarrassing himself through such comments, but also showing “signs of desperation.”
“What President Mahama is doing clearly shows a drowning and desperate man seeking straw to survive in order to be relevant and increase his chances of leading his party in the 2020 presidential contest,” he stressed.
“But, Mr. Mahama you need to elevate the standard of politics in the country; you need to tell the citizenry, what you can do to improve the living standards of the people, and make their lives better should you get the unlikely opportunity you are seeking to lead the country instead of sounding condescending of the President and demeaning your image,” he added.
Dr Nyarko said the former President should be the last person to describe anybody, let alone the high performing, competent, visionary, high flying and highly competent President Akufo-Addo, as incompetent.
“Mr. Mahama should tell us, apart from sinking the economy, performing poorly on all the macroeconomic indicators, making life for the citizenry unbearable, promoting unprecedented corruption in the country, among others, what competent policy he rolled out to soothe our economic pains and challenges? Nothing! Yet, he speaks as if he did anything unique for the country. His handlers are making him look bad and behaving not like a Statesman!” he said.
Meanwhile, a Deputy Minister of Information, Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah-Adjei, also took to his Facebook wall and asked the former President to at least check himself well before describing President Akufo-Addo as incompetent.
Alleging that Mr Mahama benefitted from the 2012 elections malpractices, the Information Minister reminded the former President of his embarrassing role in last year’s Kenya’s elections and recently that of Sierra Leone.
“2018 presidential elections in Sierra Leone, you went as an observer.... once again, most incompetent observer in the history of Africa. An ex-president who can’t monitor elections.... is that one too a president?” she asked.
“After all the trail of embarrassments you brought back to Ghana recently, to remain relevant in Ghana politics, you describe President Akufo Addo today, as though you were talking about your own self. A president who may need an Obinim's sticker is still 100% more competent than an ‘odwan funu.”
Source: the new statesman
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@Yaw did NPP called Mahama Odwan Funu?Massa, that your "MOVIE STAR PRESIDENT"will never get the opportunity to pass through the BACK DOOR Again. Am telling YOU 'NEVER AGAIN' Odwan Funu can't lead a country of HUMAN BEINGS.A serious KNOCK OUT awaits HIM come 2020 and Beyond.LONG LIVE RAWLINGS & KUFFOUR ,LONG LIVE PREZ. AKUFFO ADDO
Look at this otweaa called Mahama spewing rubbish. As for you Mahama dier you'll never learn sense.The more gray hair you grow the arithmetically the more your gyimie and bulubulu increases geometrically.Bulu mli bulu!!!
MAHAMA FORD ARE U A F00L
There is nothing neutral about you. You just wearing an NPP colors under your shirt and writing rubbish. Akuffo Addo and NPP are just using the little resources we have to buy vote from people like you and others knowing very well that Ghanaians like free things. This is not the time for this so called social intervention at the expense projects that will create jobs for the people and improve the economy. This is the time that any government who is serious about developing Ghana should take the hard decisions and create jobs for the people and improve the lives of Ghanaians by creating the enabling environment that pay workers well and this so called social interventions will come naturally. But here you , you don't even have job yet you are praising a government that is using the scarce resources for some so called social intervention.
As a neutral, I can't see any difference between the two sides. You are castigating someone for using unstateman-like language yet you yourself decided to descend lower than him with your use of invective and colorful language! It's the case of two naked people running after each other so no one really knows the difference as to who is sane and who is not! Those superlatives used to describe the performance of President Nana are overboard as there are serious policy implementation challenges. So it is deceptive to paint a picture of an economy in excellent shape. In comparison, he did better than JM in terms of some of the social-intervention policies being restored. It is fair to also acknowledge that some modest gains made by JM government are being consolidated. But overall, we ought to be doing better than we are jubilant about. We seem to be so steeped in mediocrity to the extent that any modest gain is overly celebrated. We should be comparing ourselves to Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia because those are our temporaries as a nation. Then we will realize how backward we are and how successive governments after Nkrumah has cheated us out of development! Needless to say, these nations did it with far less resources than we have been "blessed" with!
NPP AND INTOLERRANCE IS LIKE BANKU AND OKRO SOUP - INSEPARABLE!
NDC must get rid of this toxic incompetent John Ford Mahama if the party want to remain relevant in Ghana politics.... otherwise the NDC will disintegrate and become history....
Does the NPP ever get tired of S.T.U.***D.I.T.Y???? Check out what invectives they threw at JM as President in 2016!! He recommends a sticker for your obvious incompetence and you start wailing all over the place???!!