There is no gainsaying the fact that former President John Dramani Mahama is desperate for power, but for him to have gathered the rest of the world with the view to showcasing the ills that visited the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election is something that beats the imagination.
The Former President, on Wednesday, 13th February, 2019, gathered members of the diplomatic community in Ghana and showed them footages of the violence which rocked the by-election in the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency.
Mr. Mahama, in the video, painted a hellishly beastly picture of Ghana’s security situation to the enthusiastic gathering.
He pontificated that Ghana under His Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is in a deplorable state and that if care is not taken, Ghana’s envious democratic credentials would be eroded as a result of what he described as a state of insecurity in the country.
It would be prudent, at this juncture, not to mince words in condemning the former president for painting such a gloomy scenario of the country in terms of security.
As a former president, one would expect that he would not go to this extreme in his bid to win sympathies for himself as the next elections loom large.
For the eight years of NDC rule, Ghanaians became victims of a systemic course of violence, especially in our by-elections. The Chereponi, Atiwa and Talensi by-elections were classic cases of electoral violence whose magnitudes are yet to be bested in our electoral history.
The former president, if he were honest, would not have picked the skirmishes in the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election alone but would have added those which occurred during the Chereponi, Atiwa and Talensi by-elections.
His base and unpatriotic motives could well be detected in this well-rehearsed, aggrandized and embellished agenda to sell Ghana to the international community as a failed state.
Many a Ghanaian had hoped that if even he had concerns, he could have assembled some civil society organizations in the country to express his misgivings about what transpired in Ayawaso West Wuogon.
The good people of Ghana must condemn this unstatesmanlike behavior of the former president. It would appear that winning the next elections is far more important to him if it would even send Ghana’s enviable reputation downhill.
Source: newsroomgh.com
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JDM has done well. We live in a global village. The perpetrators of evil are crying foul. How can they do evil and expect the good people of Ghana to applaud and hide it from the world? Hypocrisy at its highest.
mahama is a ***barred word*** and a ***barred word***, he i=will be in opposition for million years, criminalll, gh pp
Herrrr so we had such a thing (mahama) as a president a supposed former president,you see this ediot is so desperate for power to come and luuuut, Ghanaians are going to make sure we don't bring such a thing any where near the presidency. Kwashia buuuulu
Mahama is not smart. He is advertising his folly before the whole world. When gods want to destroy someone they first make him mad. He is dug his own grave
jdm is childish, desperate and very hypocritical
PEPENII/TANII (A.B.O.A) kayaye woman gave birth to you ,thank Kwame Nkrumah for introducing free education to these natafou (ani-mals). 4th class citizens . God will punish you for disgracing Ghana
So this desperate, celebrity ***barred word***, and ingrate was our president. Ghana has really gone down before.Thank God he saved us.
Trying to control the narrative with this article. Ghanaians are more discerning than you wish to admit. We are watching silently.
The commissioners who paid visit knew almost everything that has transpired in this country for past years, all that they wanted to know was if John Mahama is indeed changed and a sincere person, they are aware of the numerous violence associated with especially out by elections including Atiwa, Talensi, Chereponi and so many others, John Mahama is not a SMARRT person and thought he could lie his way through, Hahahahaha, whites are not D.U.M.P.S, before they don’t come to you without having prior notice of what they are going to ask, sometimes they want to test your intelligence, Hahahahaha, the incompetenttt one has failed again, did JM think they descended from the from a different planet, We all remember wick3d leaks, they have installed so many information about this country, the chronicle of events in our elections and many others
WHY IS IT THAT MAHAMA IS SO DESPERATE FOR POWER? THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT FOR CORRUPT1 PEOPLE. ARE YOU THE ONLY INTELLIGENT PERSON IN THE NDC? EVEN, RAWLINGS WHO SUFFERED FOR THE PARTY IS NOT BEHAVING LIKE YOU WHY? THE DIPLOMATIC COMMUNITY KNOWS BETTER THAN WHAT YOU THINK.