NDC Congress: "Demon-possessed" Ivor was "carried away by emotions"

Majority Leader Alban Bagbin has told Bernard Nassara Saibu of starr FM that the General Secretary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Ivor Greenstreet was demon-possessed at the grounds of the governing party’s national delegates’ congress, thus his direct acerbic criticism against the President and the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Greenstreet on Saturday December 20, 2014 told President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur in the face that: “You don’t care”.

“Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”, Greenstreet shouted when he delivered his party’s solidarity message to the NDC at the congress at the Baba Yara Stadium in the Ashanti regional Captial, Kumasi – stronghold of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). In the full glare of the President, Vice President, former President Jerry Rawlings, and thousands of leaders and supporters of the NDC, a defiant Greenstreet said: “…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.”

He added: “We would have thought that perhaps you may have used an occasion like this to discuss policies, programmes and solutions to all the difficulties we are facing as a nation, but no, you chose today to share your Christmas gifts with each other.”

“Ghanaians are not happy at all. This ‘bronya’ is dry. Too too dry,” he told the President, adding: “The most painful thing of all is that you don’t care.”

“NDC continue, we are watching you, Ghana is watching you, do what you want to do, we also know what we’ll come and do…make sure you’ll elect executives who will be able to steer your parties affairs when you are in opposition. Boys abr3.”

Responding to Greenstreet’s “acidic” criticism in a later interview, Bagbin said: “Brotherly or sisterly parties were to give solidarity messages. Now it was unexpected that solidarity messages will turn into a very acidic criticisms of the NDC Government and my very good brother Greenstreet took all of us by surprise because that is not his nature, so I don’t know what demon entered him at that time.”

Asked by Nassara Saibu if he thought Greenstreet was really demon-possessed, Bagbin said: “Yes”.

“He could have used it in better language. I know him…I think that he was carried away by some emotions and that is why he came out very raw and I think that it was completely out of place,” Bagbin said.