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National Youth Organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, popularly known as ‘Nana B’ has condemned what he calls dirty politics of tribalism and ethnicity consistently waged by President John Mahama in his campaign ahead of the December 7, polls.
 
He claims the consistent trend by the former President to win ‘sympathy votes’ is “unacceptable”.
 
“You see former President Mahama has this track record of dirty tribal politics for his own political gains. He is fond of doing that even when he was a President. Such a person can destroy a nation,” he said in an interview with NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’.
 
His comment follows the opposition party's claims of state-sponsored ethnic discrimination against Voltarians and non-Akans in the ongoing voter registration exercise.
 
The former President accused President Nana Akufo-Addo of using the military to frustrate people of the Volta region and non-Akans from registering.
 
In a statement on Saturday, 1 August 2020, Mr. Mahama said: “This is not the Ghana our forebears toiled for and built!”
 
“Each and every successive President”, he noted, “left a peaceful, stable and united country”.
 
He strongly held that “The road President Akufo-Addo is taking our beautiful country through, using the military and party thugs to stop people from exercising their right to register and vote in the upcoming December elections, is dangerous and unacceptable”.
 
The NDC Flagbearer for this year's elections further alleged that “There have been many reports and video evidence, like the one in this post, of the President’s deployment and discriminatory use of soldiers to target our brothers and sisters in the Volta Region and wherever there are settlements of Voltarians and non-Akans”.
 
But Nana B insists Mahama claims are “bogus” and ethnocentric meant to bring about “chaos” and “tension” ahead of the December 7, general elections.