[ 2015-05-26 ]

‘NDC Wants To Score Political Points Out Of Mahama’s Death’
A group called Concerned Citizens of Ghana has
accused the governing National Democratic Congress
(NDC) of exploiting the murder of the New
Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Adams Mahama to their
advantage.

The group claimed that they have intercepted a
copy of an internal NDC propaganda guidance note
sent to the party’s communicators directing them
to capitalize on Mahama’s death to deflect
attention from government’s failures.

“It is clear that they want to use the
unfortunate death of Adams Mahama as a strategy to
deflect attention from the many leadership
failures of the John Mahama-led NDC government,
the least of which is dumsor. The NDC wants to
dance on the grave of Alhaji Adams Mahama,” said
a statement signed by the group’s Coordinator,
Asafo Agyei.

The political parties in Ghana including the
governing NDC have publicly condemned the acid
attack on the NPP’s Upper East Regional
chairman, Adams Mahama which caused his death.

The General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu
Nketia condemned the incident and urged the NPP to
urgently address the violence which has plagued
the party in recent times.

But the Concerned Citizens are of the view that
the NDC is clearly “one political party in Ghana
which always seeks to make political capital out
of the death of public figures.”

“This is the one party in Ghana’s history that
made political capital over the death of a great
King and Warrior, Ya-Na, and those of Issa
Molbila, and President Atta Mills, among others.
And now they seek to make the same of Adams
Mahama.”

“If Ghanaians will recall, it is the same NDC
that created a state of doom and gloom over these
deaths, falsely claiming access to evidence that
points to the culpability of politicians,
especially of the NPP. They went on to make
promises of using this same evidence they claimed
they had to prosecute, and jail the people they
falsely accused.”

The group also accused the NDC of engaging in
“shameful exploitation of the deaths of
honourable Ghanaians for political advantage.”

“In fact, NDC has, without a shred of shame,
through its founder, claimed that the death of
their own, then President Atta Mills, was a
‘fortunate event’ because it gave them
sympathy votes during the 2012 Elections. Their
National Women’s Organiser in 2012 hailed the
death of the then President as coming at the right
time.”

“How much more evil can a whole party be? How
much more callous, devious, and heartless can the
NDC be? Is nothing sacred anymore as far as the
NDC’s politics is concerned? Have they no
shame?” the group queried.

“Now they are back, and seek to do same with the
death of another Ghanaian. It was sad to note,
that even at the point when our Adams Mahama was
yet to be buried, these same ghoulish vampires
jumped on their political soapboxes, drumming up
vile propaganda and hate, again, all for political
benefit.”

The Concerned Ghanaians therefore admonished
Ghanaians to avert their minds to the “duplicity
of the NDC, which is not focusing their attention
and energies on security for all Ghanaians who
daily are under attack by armed robbers and
contract killers.”

According to them, the deaths of other Ghanaians
including “Fennec Okyere and Francis Anderson,
who were brutally cut down in the prime of their
lives and careers, have not received the same kind
of attention the NDC has attached to deaths they
see as politically ‘beneficial’.”

The group stressed that it is obvious the NDC
government is not interested in the personal
safety of ordinary Ghanaians who a daily basis
suffer and lose their lives through robbery
“simply because their lives have no political or
electoral ‘value’.”

The Concerned Ghanaians therefore charged the NPP
to realign its leadership to bring back total
confidence in the direction and purpose of the
party’s leadership.

They advised the leaders of the NPP party to take
tough decisions that will bring back confidence in
its leadership.

“We understand that this murder is alien to the
tradition of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), but
the party must come out of this stronger and
single-minded in focusing on how to recapture
2016.”

“Nothing short of this will satisfy Ghanaians,
the NPP and the family of Adams Mahama.”

Source - Daily Guide

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