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Stop fuelling tribalism – Akufo-Addo to Mahama

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  • Adam 7 years ago

    ''Yen akanfuo'' is what?

  • OLD SOLDIER 7 years ago

    Look who is talking, you started it and now its come to haunt you

  • Kontonkyi 7 years ago

    You Guys simply do not understand the import of the discourse. ndc fools with their half-lunatic president.

  • kofi 7 years ago

    konkokyi,,why is your tribalist nana addo runing from.He now realiased that he can,t win with akyem /ashanti votes.if akyem/ashanti continues to vote npp,,so will others continue for ndc

  • Stoway 7 years ago

    Nana Addo will perform badly in Ashanti this time. He is not a son of Ashanti; Konadu Agyeman Rawlings is and JOY as well. They will vote for Konadu; remember Ashanti is maternal and they believe in Women leaders as warrior ( ...
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  • YOU'RE NOW CRYING? 7 years ago

    KUFFOUR SAID IN EASTERN REGION NANA IS YOUR OWN VOTE FOR HIM WHAT IS THE MEANING?
    YOU ARE NOW CRYING TELL KUFFOUR

  • NANA AMA 7 years ago

    President Mahama had been vindicated once more since it is obvious that the opposition has a gold medal in insults.
    President with all due respect is appealing to the people to vote for him based on his track record.
    More ...
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  • RAS AYAARE NAMSONGA 7 years ago

    EVERY BODY UNDERSTANDS THE WAR MONGER AND HIS TRIBALISTIC, AKANISTIC, AKYEMISTC.THE IMPORT OF WARRIOR'S STATEMENTS ARE THAT HE ALONE HAS A TRIBE TO BE PROUD OF.HYBRAD OF SLAVES.

  • Hmmmmmmmn 7 years ago

    Mahama is so desperate that he can kill as well as steal all our money to campaign just to retain the presidency.

  • NANA AMA 7 years ago

    The only person desperate for power is Nana addo since nothing is working in his favour.
    Moreover Nana addo knows president Mahama is #TransformingGhana and he can attest to it.
    In essence under JM, kyebi where Nana addo ...
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  • KWAKU SEI 7 years ago

    NANA CHOSE BAWUMIA AS HIS VICE. WHO SAYS BAWUMIA WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT SO MUCH WOULD KILL NANA FOR IT. BAWUMIA IS EXPERT ECONOMIST WHO WANTS TO SERVE GHANA OR WOULD GO FOR ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT.

  • ADAM, YOU'RE SO STUPID. BRAINLESS 7 years ago

    I HAVE HEARD PEOPLE SAY "WE DAGOMBAS" AND I OFTEN SAY MYSELF "WE GA PEOPLE" IN SO MANY CASES. WE THE GA DON'T SPEND MONEY LIKE THE AKANS AND ON FUNERALS. WE RATHER CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF A CHILD. SO "YEN NKRANFUO" IS NOT TRIB ...
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  • Koku Togbi 7 years ago

    Probably if Mr Mahama had been in NPP, he would not have been president;at least he could have been present for only 5 month after the death of fmr president Mills. In 2012 he would have been contested and definitely he'd hav ...
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  • BE TRUTHFUL 7 years ago

    You don't make any sense, you can combine Nana Ado, Kuffour, Kyeremanteng and all the Ashanti/Akyem names they can't match Mahama. The were all there for 8 years and Ghanaians kicked them out. Mahama is transforming Ghana and ...
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  • Kwaku Yeboah Asiedu 7 years ago

    What has Bawumia achieved? Two electoral defeats as against Ali u Mahamas two electoral victories. Yet NPP said Alice wasn't fit to rule how much more of Bawumia?. Bawumia is just over-hyped. I Am a PhD student in economics, ...
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  • KWAKU SEI 7 years ago

    WHO TOLD MAHAMA THAT BAWUMIA WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT, EVEN TO THE EXTENT OF KILLING NANA?? BAWUMIA IS RELIGIOUS, GREAT ASSET IN ECONOMICS ON WORLD MARKET, WANTS TO SERVE GHANA AS VICE, NOT TO KILL AND ROB AS PRESIDENT.

  • Stoway 7 years ago

    Listen to yourself, 'who said Bawumia want to be a president?' Well if he tried, you guys would have shown him the exit right, because he is not competent enough right? So nana was given the opportunity because of his compete ...
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  • Kkd 7 years ago

    You stood n kumasi and said npp is an Akans party now you turning around telling someone to stop fueling tribalism. Ken Agyapong said Gas should be killed n you rejoiced with kalippo. Sarfo marfo said Gas Ewes and northerners ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 7 years ago

    AUTHOR : ADJAPONG NTRA SAKYI------ Wise up Mr President. It's unfortunate that Ghana elected a dimwit as the president in the person of John Dramani Mahamah. The constitution of Ghana demand that when a sitting president dies ...
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  • NANA AMA 7 years ago

    The NPP truly smack of hypocrisy and double standards. Nana addo stood in Kumasi and said " the NPP is an Akan party" yet you see nothing wrong with that?
    For the records JM is till our best option and thanks to him the pro ...
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  • NDC IS A CURSE 7 years ago

    DONT ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE DECIEVED BY THE NDC HYPE.THE MOST TRIBALISTICC POLITICAL PARTY IN GHANA IS THE NDC,REORDS SHOW!

  • BE TRUTHFUL 7 years ago

    In the history of UP/NPP there has never been any presidential candidate except Akan even if the candidate is as good as anything so long that he is not Akan he will not be allowed to rule. Ali Mahama is an example. In NDC Ra ...
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  • Obinim 7 years ago

    Presidential candidates in the NPP are chosen through free and fair elections.

  • Koku Togbi 7 years ago

    I may be wrong but about 50% of Ghanaians will agree with me:
    Ameri power $530M, General Electric $220M. DISCUSS!!!!

  • NO-NONSENSE 7 years ago

    You are PATHETIC. You are no EWE. How do I know? You made a SIMPLE mistake that an EWE will NEVER make. I will not tell you what it is, figure it out yourself.

  • NOBODY 7 years ago

    The answer is its on its way, and will arrive at NPP headquarters when your clueless incompetent monumental failure Serial Loser Banza Bakoi loses for the third time in December and formally becomes a certified three-time los ...
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  • 1 Loaf 7 years ago

    What happened to the first national chairman of the npp, Paul Afoko?

  • 1 Loaf 7 years ago

    What happened to the first northern national chairman of the npp, Paul Afoko?

  • Serious 7 years ago

    If John Mahama is claming that he comes from the north so northners must vote for him, why then do voltarins vote for him? Does he come from Volta? NO. WHY THEN VOLTA?

  • Sule 7 years ago

    Just using tribalism to confuse northerners. It will not work this time.

  • kululu 7 years ago

    Mahama is indirectly telling Northerners they have no brains to think for themselves. intelligent Northerners will not heed his call but will judge him by his deeds and intents for for the North. They will not keep him at the ...
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  • Salifu 7 years ago

    If this was said by Nana Addo or any leading NPP member, hell would have broken loose by now. Statements from various groups here and there.

  • pin 7 years ago

    DOUBLE STANDARDS

  • Neequaye 7 years ago

    The author of "y3n Akanfuor" telling someone to stop fueling trabilsim. The flag bearer of PRO akan party is adding someone. The flag bearer of kill all Gas and Ewes is telling someone to stop fueling tribalism? What is the ...
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  • NDC ARE REALLY DESPERATE. IT SHOWS 7 years ago

    WHEN A VOLTARIAN SAYS WE EWES DON'T EAT SNAILS, OR A MUSLIM SAYS WE MUSLIMS PRAY 5 TIMES....THE MEANING TRANSLATES IN THE SAME WAY AS "YEN GHANAFUO" AND "YEN AKANFUO." WHY, CAN'T AN AMERICAN SAY "WE AMERICANS ARE A MIX OF DI ...
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  • Gunn 7 years ago

    see your wack logic. I just don't understand why npp people lack logic.

  • AKRANTIE BINI EATER 7 years ago

    Stop talking SHIT

  • Adu Phillips, Toronto 7 years ago

    Stop tribalism but you are the leading the only biggest tribal party in Ghana what about that Nana?

  • Adu Phillips, Toronto 7 years ago

    Stop tribalism but you are leading the only biggest tribal party in Ghana what about that Nana?

  • Kwadwo 7 years ago

    Well said Nana. This Mahama boy was never a presidential material. Mahama is a shameless crook. A thief !
    How can a whole president go out and talk trash like that! Mahama is a disgrace yet some nincompoops will surely vote ...
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  • NANA AMA 7 years ago

    If you have any evidence which implicates the sitting president in any wrong doing, kindly furnish the police with the report and seek redress at the courts. That is your civic duty.
    JM is protecting our public purse and th ...
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  • Kkd 7 years ago

    You stood n kumasi and said npp is an Akans party now you turning around telling someone to stop fueling tribalism. Ken Agyapong said Gas should be killed n you rejoiced with kalippo. Sarfo marfo said Gas Ewes and northe ...
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  • KWAPPS 7 years ago

    You have become as desperate as a drowning man to the point where you will hold on to just about anything, even a straw becomes a life jacket. After the infrastructure talk is over this president has nothing left in his tank ...
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  • ######## 7 years ago

    MAHAMA ONLY TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT NPP, SO GIVE US A BREAK, AKUFFO DOPE HEAD. THE SHAPE OF AKUFFO' HEAD IS REALLY UGLY.

  • Kofi Gbagbladza 7 years ago

    Nana Addo's the most divisive person. Ye akanfour, bloody tribalist. My vote is for Mahama

  • Obuama 7 years ago

    The Hypocrisy in this country is beyond belief. Former president John Agyekum Kuffuor stood on a political platform during an NPP rally at Akropong just a week ago and said that Akwapims and Akyems should vote for Nana Addo b ...
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  • babs 7 years ago

    U r just another hypocrite.compare the two statements.NDC for the past have been twisting statements to make it look tribalistic so we expect them to be perfect on that aspect.if kuffour says akufo addo shud be voted by his p ...
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  • nii 7 years ago

    Kudos bro

  • francis 7 years ago

    Ghana, for the first time has a complete FOOLISHLY FOOLISH person as a President. He has no message so playing on tribal politics.

  • NANA AMA 7 years ago

    The objective few in this country can attest to the fact that president Mahama in all humility serves the best interest of Ghanaians and no matter the insults you rain on him, he will still be our president till 2021.
    Moreo ...
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  • Woods 7 years ago

    Are you really called Nana Ama?

  • Lenden 7 years ago

    I can't imagine myself going to the pooling station with the main reason of voting along tribal lines. That would have been the biggest insult to my generation

  • Jew 7 years ago

    We know you and NPP are tribalistic, we don't need Mahama to fuel it.

  • sasu rex abetifi kwahu 7 years ago

    the tribal card wont wash this time around.

  • Abd. Salam 7 years ago

    But NANA,is it not the trend in the elephant family? Is it not a statement of fact? The best gift that you can give to a person is to let him or her feel equally important.We are not in an animal farm;Where, "All animals are ...
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  • kofi 7 years ago

    NAna Addo,,,ah ah aj,a tribalist cum excellence.At osino,,otiko djaba even said it is now time for an akyem ,so they should vote for their own

  • Hamidu Yahaya 7 years ago

    Tell your chief Amoatia Ofori Panyin to stop the tribalism too.Northeners are grateful to John Mahama including your town folks of Kyebi.

  • Mahama Atopa 7 years ago

    It's obvious Mahama murdered Atta Mills because he thought there's wasn't any way for him to become a president after Mills term. As he claims parties doesn't elect northerners to lead. This is unguided statement from unquali ...
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  • NANA AMA 7 years ago

    The cheap lies you keep churning out will not wash since JM has no hand in the death of the former president.
    Former president Rawlings is on record to have said on CNN that professor Mills died of throat cancer hence the N ...
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  • KKD 7 years ago

    Mahama is kalabule .how can a president said that. No wise person will ever talk loose

  • NANA AMA 7 years ago

    President Mahama is still the best man for Ghana and we all by now can attest to the fact that these comments by Nana addo are just cheap propaganda since he has no message and plans for Ghanaians.
    President Mahama however ...
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  • ######## 7 years ago

    CAN GHANA WEB REMOVE THE UGLY PICTURE OF AKUFFO ADDO. IT DOES NOT DO HIM JUSTICE AT ALL.

  • FAILED MISSION 7 years ago

    Tribal propaganda will be a fruitless mission as far as the reality is concerned.The reality confronting as today including northerners is weather Mahama have the capacity to function effectively as a president.Governance goe ...
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  • Amegah London 7 years ago

    In Ghana, where you can mostly find tribal conflicts is the Northern Region, Mahama's own back yard between Konkomba and Nanumba's and 2, in the Volta Region the NDC so called world bank between Nkonya and Alavanyo's

    Trib ...
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  • hmmmmmmmmmm time will tell. 7 years ago

    Mr Adams say it again.He should also advice His boss JAK by saying this is their own at eastern reg ok.

  • Idii 7 years ago

    Mahama playing the tribal card is rather unfortunate

  • RPG 7 years ago

    Mahama is so desperate and his huge loss has him so stressed, mouthing gibberish on his campaign trail has become the order of the day. He is completely bereft of any message and his loss has become like a nightmare to him.
    ...
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  • NANA AMA 7 years ago

    President Mahama with all due respect had not failed Ghanaians since we can all attest to the fact that he is delivering on his promises.
    Moreover thanks to the Mahama led administration the komenda sugar factory has been r ...
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  • Willy 7 years ago

    In fact politics is a dirty game indeed.....

  • Great Fiction 7 years ago

    Great one there nana tell de idiot so call president to stop his irresponsible statement n speak like a president we northerners are ashamed of dis greedy president who only came to power to amass wealth to enrich his familie ...
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  • KWAKU SEI 7 years ago

    WHO TOLD MAHAMA THAT BAWUMIA WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT TO THE EXTENT OF KILLING NANA. BAWUMIA IS CLEAN, QUALIFIED ECONOMIST AND RELIGIOUS. HE WILL STAND FOR ELECTION IF HE WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT.

  • NANA AMA 7 years ago

    Speak to the issues and stop churning out insults. And let me enlighten you; president Mahama has done a lot for the north. JM has ensured the 147km sawla fufulso road was completed hence farmers can now cart their goods to t ...
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  • LULLA 7 years ago

    LETS FACE THE FACT, WHEN IT COMES TO LEADERSHIP, NPP IS TRIBALISTIC.

  • Bbb 7 years ago

    Mahama has lost it,he has no message and being exposed as foolish,corrupt and incompetent president ever since our independence.Vote the thief who is stealing from his own people out.

  • ghana 7 years ago

    Nana ad do is not a president, JM is n therefore represent Ghana n not the north. In any case is nanas statement dat caused his defeat.JM wise up' Ghanaians we are but one people let's condem rather than settling the scores. ...
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  • UB 7 years ago

    how dare u warn the president

  • Akos 7 years ago

    Alhaji Aliu Mahama, Paul Afoko is the reason Nana, Npp party is full of villagers, Kennedy Agyapong is a foolish adult ihave come to know all my life.

  • MR. KANAWU 7 years ago

    Selfish Akufo - Addo give the young ones chance. You have already loss the election.

  • Andropov 7 years ago

    Ei yen akanfo

  • Obinim 7 years ago

    What is wrong with 'yen akanfo'? It just means 'we akans'.

  • Peniz Chopper 7 years ago

    Only an idiot and a political neophyte like you who wouldn't know what "Ye Akanfuo" is in our political landscape.

    It's only when Akufo Addo preaches tribalism that it isn't tribalism.

  • KAMIL ATLANTA. 7 years ago

    WHEN THE TRUYH IS TOLD YOU CALL IT TRIBALISM,THIS IS NOT A TRIBALSM IS THE TRUTH.WHATTHE PRESISIDENT SAID WAS IT HAPPENED OR NOT TELL THE TRUTH NANA YOU KNOW IT IS TRUE BAWUMIA WILL NOT BE GIVEN A CHANCE TO LEAD THE NPP.
    LOO ...
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  • Ms Otuma Kukua 7 years ago

    Has Nana been rushed out to London or not? Did he collapse or not? Is Nana healthy or not?

  • LAMBERT 7 years ago

    please my people in the north please dont allow president MAHAMAH to deceive you vote NANA December 7 to move GHANA forward ,,,,,,,,, high five(5)NANA high 5 GHANA

  • Felix 7 years ago

    Mahama is expired and confused. He should bow down in shame and give way to the competent people to rule the country. Have u see a country going to IMF and win re-election before. Who want hardship. He should give way for non ...
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  • Yaw Minta 7 years ago

    Where does this leave Ewes and Gas? Over to u

  • Kwaku Yeboah Asiedu 7 years ago

    Nana Addo is a shameless and a desperate liar. A hypocrite of the highest order. Let him tackle the content of what Mahama said. Is it true or false?

  • Samuel kuffour US 7 years ago

    Magana ya go. I saw pound sterling .Still Ghana is full of shit.GHANA ?Both NDC & NPP must be vote. We are not at war. I am advising not dictating l hope it make sense .Politics ,caring for the people ,helping the country pu ...
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  • Humble John Mahama is Winning!!! 7 years ago

    Akufo Addo is a lunatic fringe! He never speaks sense....

    Tooo Short to even have common sense!

  • Nii 7 years ago

    When idiots like Akuffo-Addo speaks of someone doing tribal politics. Stupid fool like you...Who's more tribalistic than you?

  • sika asiedu 7 years ago

    I guess"yen akanfo" is not divisive. a leopard can never change It's spots. while you were lecturing us about tribalism n divisiveness you had your tribesman Osafo marfo besides you. someone who advocates only akans should be ...
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  • change is coming 7 years ago

    as for the dead goat, the least said the better. he is sooo desperate to hold onto his legendary stealing. these thieves put us into dumsor for 4yrs. chopped all de meat and came to accuse Ghanaians that our meat is down to d ...
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  • NANA AMA 7 years ago

    The change Ghanaians want is already happening under president Mahama and this accounts for the over 16,000 people who have been employed by 69 companies at the free zones thus sustaining their livelihoods.

  • abele 7 years ago

    What Mahama said is an insult to the intelligence of the people from the north.He wants to tell them that they dont have the brains to know what is good and what is bad,and as such they cant decide for themselves.This really ...
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  • Mother Land Ghana 7 years ago

    Kwasiapanyi. Nana you open said YEN AKANFO3 on political platform. Every Ghanaians knew you are a Akyem supremacist, very tribalistic, egocentric ethnocentric, ditator, war monger, a loser politician who always refused to acc ...
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  • razak seini 7 years ago

    Sorry Nana.... What the president said has been demonstrated in form n substance by ur party.
    Remember mr haruna atta said he left ur party bcos u(Nana) said during Aliu Mahamas time that u cant entrust npp into the hands of ...
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  • Landlord, Bolga 7 years ago

    This man is not ashamed of himself, could you tell your deputy god Kennedy Agyapong this when he asked that Gas, Ewes and others should be exterminated ?
    Ghanaians needs a responsible President with track record and not a ru ...
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  • Queen 7 years ago

    CONFUSED, FRUSTRATED, INCOMPETENT, CORRUPT MAHAMA

  • NANA AMA 7 years ago

    The above adjectives are rather a true description of Nana addo who till date cannot resolve the factions in the NPP.
    President Mahama is certainly one of the best after Nkrumah and under his watch the Onuador medical vans ...
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  • ABU GLASS 7 years ago

    we sell all kinds of glasses..pictures etc..

  • Musa 7 years ago

    Eiiii, akufo addo rather saying this? Wonders shall never end. Who is more tribalistic than you? You have no moral rights to say this old man.

  • HARDCORE 7 years ago

    This stupid and violent toad, Akyem Tribal Warlord on warpath, Evil dwarf Akuffo Addo is stupid as bush pig, no amount of nonsense from you can deter Prez Mahama, aboa Akuffo Addo, where were you when the shithead Ursula Owus ...
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  • KWAPPS 7 years ago

    A good president should not be seen as pitching one tribe against another, leave that to your babies with sharp tooth to do. When you are sinking you begin to kick desperately, that is where Mahama finds himself at the moment ...
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  • Stan Lokko 7 years ago

    See who is crying now? Anyway, it is what it is.

  • KK 7 years ago

    FUNNY INFINITE ASPIRANT!

  • Anthonio, Kumasi 7 years ago

    You started it all. u refused to condemned popular kill gas n ewes, osafo marfo's divisive comment n now u say wat? pls give us a break.

  • SD 7 years ago

    Yen akanfuo

  • Useless John mohama. 7 years ago

    Very well said Nana. John mohama is a disgrace to the people of the North. And the facts that he has been stepping so so low to divide the nation by Tribalism to win power tells the men john mahama really is. He's wicked, ca ...
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  • NANA AMA 7 years ago

    It is obvious you are not a true member of the NDC because the objective few in the country can attest to the fact the NPP is clueless when it comes to governance and currently have no message for Ghanaians but cheap propagan ...
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  • ghana nii pa 7 years ago

    ndc 8years has collapsed ghana, sada ,gyeda,isofotone,ect now you to divide ghana jm

  • Gbagbladza 7 years ago

    Mahama should come to deny that he never forged passports when he was resident in Kumasi Bantama.

  • Abdul 7 years ago

    I think most of my Ghanaian brothers and sisters on this platform are taking the issue in different contest. What JM said is factual or not? Did 17 aspirant contested Ali mahama or not? Did NPP vote for Ali mahama in the race ...
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  • kweku 7 years ago

    Just as I predicted that, voting for Kwabena Agyapong and Paul Afoko will as Secretary and chairman of the NPP party will never bring peace in the party, I will also predict this year's elections. Just as I predicted victory ...
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  • adiza 7 years ago

    How could a sitting President say this to a Northerner. Are we not one people?
    DisgracefulPresident. Narrowed minded individual.

  • samuel azumah 7 years ago

    there is nothing wrong for the president telling people from the north to vote for him.nana addo,go and tell people from where you come from to vote for you.nana addo,i tell you.you will get less than 50 percent of the presid ...
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  • NANA 7 years ago

    Nana Beba

  • NOBODY 7 years ago

    Clueless incompetent monumental failure Serial Loser Banza Bakoi Akufo-Addo is a failed politician and a wimpish bully. President Mahama has done nothing to fuel tribalism. Rather, its you and your Serial Liar Aplanke Bawumia ...
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  • Lopez 7 years ago

    Mahama is a disgrace to be called a Ghanaian president. How can he say his brothers in the north should all vote for him because he is one of them. If voting is based on tribal lines then why is he campaigning in other region ...
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  • Gali K. 7 years ago

    What the President is saying is true fact. I work in Ashanti region and i know what goes on.

  • Nana Akwasi Boachie 7 years ago

    Having used the tribal card earlier in his ambition to become President, Nana Addo is now crying wolf. It is also true that the NPP as a party has not dealt fairly with Northerners; they are always made to play the second fid ...
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  • KWABENA KASAPREKO. 7 years ago

    THE POT IS TELLING THE KETTLE THAT, IT IS BLACK. NANA ADO, THAT (FANNING TRIBALISM) HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE PRACTICE OF YOUR CAMPAIGN STRATEGY. SHUT YOUR MOUTH UP !!!

  • Baba Yaro 7 years ago

    Wee Akufo Addo, this is the law of Kharma as you were going around calling yourself an Akan and that the Akans should vote for you and leave the North to be second class citizens with conflicts and fighting. Wee Addo must ge ...
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  • Nii 7 years ago

    When stupid block-headed people like Akuffo-Addo speaks like idiots.