[ 2014-12-21 ]

Ivor’s criticisms smack of “incurable selective myopia” – Mahama
President John Mahama has said direct criticisms
hurled at him and his administration by the
General Secretary of the Convention People’s
Party (CPP), Ivor Greenstreet at the governing
National Democratic Congress’s national
delegates’ congress, smack of “incurable
selective myopia.”

Delivering the CPP’s solidarity message at the
NDC’s congress at the Baba Yara Stadium in the
Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi on Saturday, Mr
Greenstreet said frontally to the President and
the NDC that: “…Currently nobody, I mean
nobody is feeling your better Ghana.”

“Continuous ‘dumsor dumsor,’ corruption from
top to bottom, left right, inside-out, and all the
challenges you are facing [are] suffocating the
Ghanaian people,” Greenstreet added.

Accrodign to him, “the most painful thing of all
is that you don’t care,” as he implied that
the party would lose the 2016.

“…Make sure you’ll elect executives who will
be able to steer your party’s affairs when you
are in opposition. Boys abr3” added the CPP
General Secretary.

When the President mounted the stage to address
the congress, he said he had to “restrain”
himself from “frontally” responding to
Greenstreet, since in his opinion, certain
politicians have allowed their view to be blurred
by incessant partisanship.

“Government is a continuum and I’m therefore
not one to play the blame game, and I’ve
therefore had to restrain myself from responding,
frontally, to the solidarity message that was
given by our colleagues from the CPP.


“Petty partisanship is the bane to our democracy
and the wish to acquire power becomes so
insatiable that we put on politically coloured
lenses and make it difficult for us to see what
the reality is.

"It is said that selective myopia is incurable and
so I’m not going to stand here and attempt to
cure selective myopia,” Mahama said in response
to Greenstreet’s criticism.

The President urged the delegates to make the
right choice of leadership for the party through
their votes as they confirm their dedication to
transforming Ghana’s economic fortunes.

“…We must elect people who will stand and
defend the principle and the core values of our
great party the NDC….When this is done on
January 7, 2014, our great Akatamanso party will
once again sing praises to the Almighty God for
giving us a great victory because we are
determined to transform the economic history of
our dear nation for the benefit of [the] present
generation and generations unborn”.

Source - Starrfmonline

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