Questioning the loyalty of dual citizens cost Ras Mubarak his seat – Kwaku Azar

Controversial public intellectual, Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare ( Kwaku Azar) has attributed the inability of Ras Mubarak to win the Kumbungu National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary primary to his questioning of the loyalty of dual citizens to Ghana.

Two years ago, Prof Azar had appealed to Ras Mubarak to cease his consistent criticism of dual citizens as persons who can’t be trusted to hold high public office in Ghana because of their divided loyalty.

Ras Mubarak had rejected his plea and continued to doubt the loyalty of dual citizens, arguing that “you can’t take the oath of allegiance to Ghana and be loyal to another country. It makes mockery of the very oath of allegiance”

Prof Azar who has always campaigned for the amendment of the law that bars dual citizens from some public positions, thinks that his loss was as a result of his stance on the rights of dual citizens.

Ras Mubarak lost the primary election to Dr Hamza Adam a Lecturer with the University for Development Studies (UDS).

Dr Hamza Adam who defeated him, polled 401 as against the incumbent’s 273 and 81 votes for the third candidate Baba Abdulai.

Ras Mubarak who was optimistic of carrying the day has been left disappointed together with his supporters after results declared signaled his obituary.

In a post-election interview he said “As a country, we have to rethink the way we want our politics to go forward. We have seen levels of vote-buying and particularly in the Kumbungu election.”

“Interestingly I have even reported and complained to the BNI to look into the possibility of money laundering. Officially, I have reported to the BNI to look at how people could just share money like crazy so to speak just three days ago.