NPP Tribal and Ethnic Bigots Yell .....

‘Te Ni’ Can’t Govern Us

Responding to the Meteoric rise of John Mahama

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) and their sharp propaganda machine has devised an elaborate strategy of dirty and smear campaign laced with tribal and ethnic bigotry against President John Drama Mahama in order to portray him as someone who is ethnically unfit to lead this nation.

The NPP, our intelligence can reveal have planned as part of the 2012 electioneering campaign in their strongholds of Ashante to tag the President as ‘Te Ni’, a derogatory term often used to refer to people of Northern extraction; in order to portray him to their supporters and other Ghanaians as an ‘outsider’ or inferior citizen, who should not be allowed to be the President of Ghana after the expiration of the first term mandate of the late President Mills in December this year.

Other propaganda tags the NPP have planned to put on the President in the run up to the December elections include homosexuality, womanizing and corruption The Al-Hajj has gathered that various fictitious evidences and witnesses would be paraded to the good people of Ghana by the desperate NPP and their propaganda team to try and convince them that John Dramani Mahama is not a candidate who can be trusted with the destiny of this country as a president.

Having had their campaign strategy for the 2012 election unexpectedly collapsed with the sudden demise of the late former President, John Atta Mills, and with glaring defeat stirring them in the face, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) sees these roguish measures of propaganda as the best way to contain the meteoric rise and popularity of John Mahama, even before he gets his party’s endorsement as its presidential candidate for the December 2012 elections.

Mr. Charles Ahwireng, a taxi driver plying his trade in the Accra metropolis called into the offices of The Al-Hajj last week to complain of what he says was dangerous trend of tribal chauvinism being introduced into our politics by members of the NPP.

According to this taxi driver, since the swearing-in of John Dramani Mahama as president following the demise of President John Atta Mills and the subsequent nomination of Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur for the position of a vice president, ethnocentric comments by supporters of the NPP he has come into contact with could pose a danger to the stability and security of the nation. Mr. Charles Ahwireng said he has on several instances come across members of the NPP at drinking pubs and other public places making disparaging remarks about where president Mahama comes from.

“Master, where is this country going to, the NPP people have begun something which can be dangerous for this country…

“I was at a spot at Dansoman and I heard them saying in Twi; ‘Yen diye yen pini ma te ni bia embedi yesu oh!’ to wit; we won’t allow any person of northern descent rule over us oh”.

According to the taxi driver, he again met some NPP members at another pub at Nyaho Clinic area at Accra Airport residential area who repeated what was said at Dansoman.