A Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has cautioned Former President Mahama to focus on delegates in his campaign to lead the National Democratic Congress in 2020.
According to him, the former President could suffer another humiliating political defeat if he limits his campaign to broader national and international issues instead of appealing directly to the party’s delegates.
Speaking on Adom, he said “The most important thing in my view is to be able to appeal to the delegates who would decide on who to lead the party as flagbearer. If they have not really spoken to the delegates and they focus on the broader citizenry they would end up feeling disappointed after the election.”
His comment was in reaction to what has become a norm of politicians campaigning in schools.
The Deputy National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joshua Akamba was recently invited by the Police for inciting some students of Tempane Senior High School in the Upper East region against government’s free SHS policy.
This ‘provoked’ President Mahama to dare the Akufo-Addo government arrest him too if he campaigned in schools.
However, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, who is apparently unhappy with the comment, threatened to stop Mahama from campaigning in the region.
He said the region is an ‘NPP state’ and vowed to prevent the NDC aspirant from setting foot in the region if his intention was to pollute the minds of students in the region.
“I dare John Mahama to try the Ashanti Region with his school politics, we will stop him,” he said.
Prof. Condemns Threat
Touching on this, Professor Gyampo condemned the threats issued by Wontumi, and described the comment as something that can potentially undermine the quest for national cohesion.
“The leaders in the NPP must call Wontumi to order. He has no right to determine who can campaign in the region,” he stressed.
Source: The Publisher
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I am extremely surprise that almost 2 years you are still talking saying that prosecution will soon begin. Wow, yo shock me.
Please keep your toxic mouth out of our party matters. Concentrate on the poor performance of your party and let Mahama deal with his own problems. He is more than capable!!
hahaha please mr proffessor dont wast ur time ok because the hansome man mr mahama will win hands down so pls stop de speaches you are making out there
Pizeaux,if you call this government a failure then I don't know what you will call ndc create l000**00t and share government. Look, nobody is listening to the ndc in Ghana except yourselves, you are not more than those who vote to choose a president and a government in Ghana if ndc are smart people, like the Kwesi Botchway committee's report said you needed kritical thinkers you would have known you've lost the 2020 elections in advance. Listen to Goosie Tando's assessment and that would help the ndc, anyone who doesn't watch were he fell is a f000**00l! The man has been able to identify the wrongs that ndc should address before going for an election,he started from 1992 when ndc won by 58% 1996 ndc won by 57% 2000 ndc lost, 2004 ndc lost, 2008 ndc won on runoff by less than 1% 2012 ndc won by less than 1%, 2016 ndc lost by over 1million votes and who told you ndc can win in 2020? how are you going to write off this 1 million votes and win with even +1 ndc don't think of that, but all they know and thinking of is we are winning winning where and they don't know ! and they think forming the HAWKS means they can win, you don't know what you people are talking about! If NPP, were able to overcome you when you were in power,what shows your HAWKS can save you in opposition, i tell you they will be crushed in a second. You see NPP are not talking about your HAWKS hahaha! like they took you by storm and your IT connected to the EC IT failed you the same will repeat itself. NPP intelligence is not that your HAWKS ! Allotey Jacobs once said ,NPP don't talk but they know what they are doing. Instead of you following an intelligent person who can identify your wrongs and correct and move your party forward you people are following this de*adgo*at who thinks forming the HAWKS is the answer ! Follow John Mahama and be miserable! Prof. Joshua Alabi, Goosie Tandoh, Alban Bagbin have much chance than your de*ad go*at who thinks the presidency is a woman and man affair. Any of them can be groomed to become a good candidate than this rejected soul ndc want to bring,only ndc members will be attracted to vote for John mahama in 2020, because the man has no credibility in Ghana and he is annoying the people more with his review mantra ! he hasn't been able to prove himself worthy of the presidency only I will cancel this ,I will review all the social interventions and he thinks the people are f0000**00ls to vote for him to come and review and cancel like he did to the NHIS,and he thinks we will vote for him to come and build ndc school for each constituency, such a twerp is the candidate ndc want to face wisdom in 2020.
But what is your beef. He knows exactly what he is doing. Who says he is not meeting the delegates too. If you have won the elections in advance, what else should you do apart from campaigning among the citizenry too. The ndc flagbearer is no brainer to mahama.
The NDC will always like to redefine everything to suite them and them alone! The corruption tag the NPP put on Mahama and hos cohorts are real and prosecution will soon begin. Not a single propaganda-based accusation leveled against the NPP can hold water. Failure is one of the terms the NDC has redefined because to them those who loot state resources are successful. If one guards the state resources prudently they are failures. How pathetic! For your lack of understanding, arrogance and carelessness, Ghanaians will continue to reject you.
We do not need your advice Prof. Talk about the corruption and rot in the economy. Your Npp govt has failed