NPP N/R Blast President Mahama 'Changing Lives' Tour; Claim People Were Bused To Rally ground
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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