News:
August 29, 2016
The Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wougon has advised President John Dramani Mahama to leave the Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party out of his campaign message.
Emmanuel Kyeremateng Agyarko said the President should rather focus his campaign message on issues related to development under his administration.
This follows the president’s call on Ghanaians not to vote for his opponent, Nana Akufo-Addo whom he described as a dictator.
While addressing party supporters at Bimbilla in the Northern Region, Mr Mahama hit hard at the NPP flagbearer accusing him of being divisive and leading the campaign to suspend the two National Executives of the party.
In a response on AM show, Mr Keremateng Agyarko said neither NPP nor its flagbearer did anything wrong in suspending its National Chairman, Paul Afoko, and that has been affirmed by the Accra High Court.
“Has he forgotten what is happening in his own party? The NDC has birthed about three different parties and the wife of the founder of the party has broken away to found her own party. A party which calls its founder a barking dog that has been tamed, and the President is talking about divisiveness?” the legislator quizzed on MultiTV’s AM Show on Thursday.
In Mr Keremateng Agyarko’s view, President John Mahama has no message for Ghanaians, hence his constant attack on the NPP Flagbearer.
“In his 2012 manifesto he told Ghanaians he would improve certain areas to make life better, that is what President Mahama should be updating the people on,” the MP added.
The former Chief Executive of the Food and Drugs Authority under the Kufuor administration lamented the deteriorating National Health Insurance Scheme, the ailing economy and the high level of corruption in the current government and urged the President to deal with those issues.
“On the issue of infrastructural development the President stood before us in Parliament and said by end of his term, he would have built 200 senior high schools, how many has he built? How many has he inaugurated?” Mr Kyeremanteng indicated.
The Member of Parliament rated the performance of President John Mahama 1.8 on a scale of 1-10.