[ 2016-11-22 ]

Ghanaians hate your tribal politics - Christian Council slams NPP, NDC
The General Secretary of the Christian Council of
Ghana has lashed out at tribal and ethnocentric
campaigning that he says is creeping steadily into
Ghana’s partisan politics.

Reverend Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong has cited the
two main political parties, the incumbent National
Democratic Congress (NDC) and opposition New
Patriotic Party (NPP) as the main culprits.

Speaking Monday evening on PM Express on the Joy
News channel on Multi TV, Rev. Dr Opuni-Frimpong
said he has observed that the electorate are
appalled by campaigning along ethnic lines.

“If they care to know Ghanaians are not very
excited about the tribal card they are playing at
the moment and if somebody can put a stop to it,
it would be good for all of us,” he said.

He said effective governance will prove a daunting
task for any party that wins the December
elections, or any other election, by inciting one
group against the other.

Campaigning on issues, he advised, “will make
governance more workable” for the party that
emerges a winner after the election.

His comments are a response to a widely condemned
statement by President John Mahama during a
campaign in the Upper West Region.

The President said because plans by his government
are in the best interest of the people from the
north of the country – Northern, Upper East and
Upper West regions – it would be unfortunate to
call for a change of government.

He said the opposition NPP did not have their
interest at heart as his government does.

The comment has been widely criticised, with the
Media Foundation for West Africa calling on the
President to apologise for what it says are
ethnic, divisive comments.

Speaking on PM Express, Reverend Dr Opuni-Frimpong
campaigning along tribal lines has persisted for a
long time, suggesting that it would be wrong to
weigh in on the President’s recent comments.

“The two major political parties, the NDC and
the NPP, all of them at the moment are playing the
political card. Whether it is in the north,
whether it is in the Volta Region, whether among
the Akyems, all of them at the moment are playing
tribal card,” he said.

He said this year’s election presents critical
issues that all stakeholders must address before
and after December 7.

He notes that apart from the unfortunate
ethnocentric comments that both parties make,
violent attacks by supporters of the party, as
have happened recently, also presents a major
challenge.

Source - Joyfm

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