NPP Bribed John Mahama

Even before Vice President John Mahama clears himself fully of allegations of collecting huge sums of monies from the STX Korean Housing deal and lifting of Armajaro’s ban by the Ghana Cocoa Board, a National Democratic Congress (NDC) insider says John Mahama, until January 2009 was on the payroll of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

“Who in the NDC doesn’t know that John Mahama got compromised by Francis Poku [former National Security Coordinator under President Kufuor ] with cash inducements which made him burry his conscience and the truth when he was supposed to be defending the avowed principles of the NDC in opposition?”, Dela Coffie, a front-liner in the Nana Konadu 2012 campaign bid noted.

Mr. Coffie cautioned that since the Vice President has ‘cotton in his bottom’ it would be in his best interest if he ‘stopped jumping over fire’. He has also dared anybody in the NDC who thinks he is speaking without evidence to come forward and challenge his claim that the second gentleman is clean of any wrongdoing and typical of the aides of the Vice, they did not pick their phones when DAYBREAK called them over the matter.

From issues of morality to corruption, John Mahama has not been spotless. He was said to be part of the first government delegation to Korea in 2009 that was bribed by the Korean company as reported by The Mail newspaper and there are also claims that he negotiated the deal on behalf of the government of Ghana using his personal address.

Though he has loyalists within the NDC, it is not uncommon to find persons close to his office ridiculing the possibility that he would be a successor to President John Mills.

In responding to recent comments John Mahama made in relation to complaints from Jerry Rawlings, Dela Coffie noted: “If the likes of John Mahama are happy that the current government has dithered in investigating and prosecuting the fraud perpetrated by the Kufuor’s government, some of us are not and he should not fool himself into believing that the better Ghana that was promised is being delivered.

“And again, what was he thinking when he said that President Mills was voted into power by Ghanaians and as such is a president of Ghana and not an NDC president? Who said President Mills is an NDC President?

“Which party’s mandate brought President Mills and John Mahama to power? Was it an independent ticket or the NDC? I seriously wonder if John Mahama and his boss are really running this country or a bunch of sycophants who have their ears are the ones ruling Ghana. What has the pair done to protect the principles and ideals of the NDC? Instead of protecting the ideals on which the NDC was founded they have rather encouraged their trusted median contacts to run down the ideals, principles and idiosyncrasies of the party. How can you be a Christian and not be Christ like? How possible can somebody claim to be an NDC and not believe in the principles and ideals that gave birth to the party? Where was John Mahama’s conscience when he made this bizarre remark?”

On whether John Mahama would be an ideal successor to John Mills, Dela Coffie noted: “which party’s mandate brought President Mills and John Mahama to power? Was it an independent ticket or the NDC? I seriously wonder if John Mahama and his boss are really running this country or a bunch of sycophants who have their ears are the ones ruling Ghana.

“How many times are we going to allow ourselves to be victimized by the unbridled folly and reckless remarks of our experimental politicians? John Mahama, and many who think like him, has conveniently forgotten the machinery that won them their elections. As an elected official of a political party, you are sworn to uphold the ideals, philosophies and idiosyncrasies of the party you serve. You have been elected to serve the interests of the party and a mandate to further the goals of the party.”

Dela Coffie added that “even if President Mills decided not to contest the 2012 elections or (God forbid) something untoward happens to him, the NDC would not suffer one bit….it was not by dint of the personalities like John Mahama who in any case was compromised by the security capos of the time. It was precisely because of the principles underpinning the party’s strength. You can never claim to be an NDC and not be loyal to the avowed principles of the party. It is not a cliché. It is indeed the practical reality”.