Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress [NDC] has pooh-poohed the warm reception accorded the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo by the people of Tisto in the Volta Region on Sunday, at the start of the latter's two-day tour of the region.
Peter Boamah Otukonor believes the seeming massive support displayed as a show of affection for President Akufo-Addo during the tour was ‘rented'.
President Akufo-Adoo, who arrived in the Volta Region on Sunday, November 3rd, made a stop at Tsito, a town about half an hour drive from the capital, Ho. He was met on arrival by a boisterous crowd and scores of New Patriotic Party (NPP) faithfuls, who in a frenzied state displayed party paraphenalia, while singing his (the president's) praises.
But Peter Boamah Otukonor was emphatic that the President "cannot be that famous" in a region regarded as the headquarters and the ‘birth place’ of the largest opposition NDC.
He told Kwesi Aboagye, host of NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’, in an interview that the mammoth crowd seen following the President during his tour were arranged for the public eye.
"So the President is in the Volta Region?...Since when?....Then that means he couldn't partake in the Hogbetsotso, right?....the soundbite you just played could be that of any other group of people showering praise on anybody....over the weekend, former president Mahama attended the EP Church 100th anniversary and whiles heading to Accra from Sogakope, the reception accorded him by residents in and around that area is better seen than described; and that was not a tour. It wasn't even a planned trip!...we (the NDC) are unperturbed at all, this so-called mammoth crowd does not tickle or move us. It is a rented crowd...," Otukunor added.
Listen to interview . . .
President Nana Akufo-Addo today begun a two-day tour of the Volta Region.
The tour begun with a meeting with the Regional Security Council.
The President will then proceed to Adaklu and Akatsi to inspect infrastructural projects and also attend the 30th Anniversary of the Akatsi District Assembly.
President Akufo-Addo is also expected to visit the Volta Star Textiles Company limited amongst other engagements.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Are u the one who paid them, we are NPP no more world bank for you
Tony Aidoo, a prominent NDC senior member reprimands NDC so much for failing to discuss policies, ideas, and programs at their Congresses. Therefore, NDC has no message for good Governance, hence his reliability on trivialities like the President taking a nap at a summit in Russia and today ostensibly renting a mob at Tiso in the Volta region. It seems, NDC underrates the intelligence of Ghanaians and believes Ghanaians will buy into such silly! propaganda. NCD is better advised to say this to the marines and pay heed to what their senior members say.
previously NPP could dare not bus a single soul to the volta and if now they can bring all these people through busing then hallelujah
we saw more crowd following Nana Addo than this during the 2012 election, but he got less than 2 percent of the total votes in the volta region...
Otukonor tickle yourself and laugh. if it is rented crowd, so be it. NDC cannot f..00l voltrians all the time. We voltarins have changed.
NPP should stop using NDC's ways of deceiving Ghanaians. They are experts in crowd renting so have the ability to identify one. Hmm
WOAAA HWE. JUST SEE HOW TRIBALISTIC AND NEPOTIC THIS MOUTHFUL MOUTH BEING CALLED OTOKUNOR SOUNDS. THE NDC WILL LOOSE PANTS DOWN
NDC must bear in mind that you can ***barred word*** some people some of the times, but you cant ****barred word**** all the people all the time. There will come a time that the consciousness of the people will be awakened.
So if it is rented crowd why your concern?
Indeed Otukonnor has a grasscutter teeth which blinds his view of how things are happening so he really has no idea how Ghanaians hate NDC and to that extent, NPP will not spend a pesewa to attract citizens to vote for Nana Addo in the 2020 elections. Mahama will be relegated to only 23% of votes that is if he is fortunate.