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NPP, your tribal posturing will always hurt your political fortunes

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  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    THIS WILL FIT MAHAMA:
    It has always been my policy to keep myself away from politics of unproductiveness. One of them is tribal/ethnocentric politics which have never-ever done any good to humanity. Their biggest brother/sis ...
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  • The Trucker 10 years ago

    Until and unless NPP shed's its PERCEIVED Akans -only brand it will never again win an election in Ghana. There is nothing to be gained by pointing out Mahama's tribalism- that is very obvious. The question is WHAT HAS NPP DO ...
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  • Mr. Figure-Out 10 years ago

    As usual, the target of this foolish write up is to pitch Ghana against the Kookoase folks through whose sweat you cracked heals had your free education. Why wouldn't I insult you if you vote for an Incompetent administratio ...
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  • GHANA 10 years ago

    The reason why you can insult people without reasoning is because most of you are bastards. Black Lilliput's brought together by prostitute's from everywhere around the world.
    You had no fathers around to teach you ethics of ...
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  • OSUAGU EMEKA 10 years ago

    If I were an Ashanii , I would feel proud indeed. The most vilified and the most adored tribe in Ghana. Every where Ashanti , everything Ashanti. Hello ! Can somebody educate me why this is so ?

  • Good citizen 10 years ago

    AND NORTHERNERS ALSO FUCK YOUR MOTHERS AND SISTERS SO YOU CAN ATTAIN SOME HEIGHT AND LOOK LIKE HUMAN BEINGS,AS COMPENSATION FOR YOU USING YOU COCOA MONEY TO EDUCATE THEM.YOU PROSTITUTE

  • Yiadom 10 years ago

    So you are telling us that all the short people in your family were fathered by Asante men, eh? If what you're saying is true, then Kufuor is your cousin, isn't it? You continue to live in your stupid and inferior mentality ...
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  • Son of man 10 years ago

    Sadly triblaisn and politics of exclusion is the reason we have this clueless NDC in power. Tribalism and descrimnation hv done man no good anywhere. We need to rise above it, the old need to desist from preaching tribalism t ...
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  • Yiadom 10 years ago

    I share your sentiments totally but please tone down a bit. These people only see elections as a perfect opportunity to punish Asantes even though they have lived peacefully with Asantes for hundred years. They are their own ...
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  • Brother 10 years ago

    Have you forgotten your first reaction about northerners? Are you revising your notes. I tell you solemnly, Northerners do this same thing sometimes. Talking ill of Asante with simple stereotype, no evidence but am surprised ...
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  • The Trucker 10 years ago

    Until and unless NPP shed's its PERCEIVED Akans -only brand it will never again win an election in Ghana. There is nothing to be gained by pointing out Mahama's tribalism- that is very obvious. The question is WHAT HAS NPP DO ...
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  • The Trucker 10 years ago

    Until and unless NPP shed's its PERCEIVED Akans -only brand it will never again win an election in Ghana. There is nothing to be gained by pointing out Mahama's tribalism- that is very obvious. The question is WHAT HAS NPP DO ...
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  • Imoro 10 years ago

    You are a very stupid and useless idiot! If you aimless dogs think you can hide there and be promoting unrest and tribalism in this country, then wait and see! You stupid dirty man who prefers to be known as a woman. Your tim ...
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  • NAKED 10 years ago

    All what you wrote for Akadu Mensema they same thing will come to you and your hopeplss family. The same thing to you.

  • oba nyansani baako Pe in Ghana! 10 years ago

    Northerners you ate disgraced since the Tue nation is established yet Ashantes have used their cocoa products to look after you fools so stop that nonsense.

  • Bassing kamaldeen 10 years ago

    You said nothing sensible.oh yeah

  • FACT 10 years ago

    IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF NKRUMAH I ATTENDED SCHOOLS WITH NORTHERNERS IN CERTAIN COSMOPOLITAN AREAS IN THE SOUTH AND THE ATTRIBUTE OF THE NORTHERNERS I ENCOUNTERED WAS "HONESTY".AS A RESULT OF THEIR HONESTY,IN MY AREA, WE REFE ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    Stupid opposition,

  • BRANDY 10 years ago

    U SIMPLY HATE AND ENVY AKANS FOR THEIR SUCCESS AND FRANKNESS WHEN IT COMES TO SELF-CRITICISM....AKANS WILL ALWAYS BE FORTHRIGHT IN SPEAKING IN ORDER TO KEEP RIGHTING EACH OTHER'S WRONGS WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOUR...AND IT IS THIS ...
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  • Good citizen 10 years ago

    OOH HOW CAN ANYONE ENVY MIDGETS?

  • BRANDY 10 years ago

    what is wrong with saying that WHEN HE WAS LIFTED FROM BOLGA?.......AN AKAN CAN EASILY SAY when so-so-and-so was lifted from jakobu or from tetrem or obuasi to the limelight in accra.....AND SUCH A STATEMENT WOULD NEVER HAVE ...
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  • HAWA YAKUBU 10 years ago

    what is your point here mati mehu

  • HAWA YAKUBU 10 years ago

    Danquah and Busia tradition is hate. But Busia is not an Akan or Ashanti.Busia route is from the north. Re-write Ghanaians history and shame the devil. Please don,t educated them. Let them follow the elephant to the bush and ...
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  • oba nyansani baako Pe in Ghana! 10 years ago

    If NPP will not win the 2016 elections then you must get ready for s civil war. We must have the Power at all cost as Mahama did on 2012 elections.

  • HE`S NOT AFRAID 10 years ago

    NPP,YOUR TRIBAL POSTURING WILL ALWAYS HURT YOUR POLITICAL FORTUNES

  • WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

    You are spewing nonsense.

  • Zack 10 years ago

    When I see Northerners & Ewes killing themselves & professing to be staunch NPP members, I pity them a lot. NPP members see these group of people as animals. They have no respect what so ever for you. They only need you when ...
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  • KK LONDON 10 years ago

    Why are you Northerners so sensitive? When it comes to ethnocentric I will say you guys from the North are the number culprit. You don't show reciprocity as you make your mindset.
    Akans can get on well with you but some of y ...
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  • Charles Agbenu 10 years ago

    NDC goon writing tribal nonsense to create confusion in NPP. For how long do NDC think they can use tribalism to boost their electoral fortunes??

  • Solomon Dormenyo Quist 10 years ago

    Charles Agbenu,
    I hope that is your real name and that you are not one of those lilly-livered cowards who hide behind assumed names. Did you actually C O M P R E H E N D the import of what the writer was putting across?

  • MINOR CASE 10 years ago

    What is this! You think every Ewe is NDC ?

  • mohamed 10 years ago

    It's the fault of the ashantis for perceiving all of these tribes (northerners, ewes, gas, fantes etc) as fools. They should publicly apologise.

  • i and i 10 years ago

    what do you people called Asante's in Ghana? Upon all the numerous names you've been given to them you still complaining about the Asante's.? Have they complaining about the names you've been calling them? If no then no one n ...
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  • Odasanibi 10 years ago

    Every tribe in Ghana has a derogatory name for all the others and that is a truth. In NPP strongholds like Ashanti region where thousands of people from other tribes live, most of these voters fake to sympathize with them bu ...
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  • Nana Aba 10 years ago

    Camillus Maalneriba-Tia Sakzeesi or warreva, your problem is you have a weak psyche and low self-esteem.

    But I see your "threat" as funny. Okay lets let Mahama rule. Like they say in Akan (unfortunately for you). "If the p ...
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  • Baffour Agyemang 10 years ago

    Nana Aba you made a good point but for the election rigging please get over it because no such thing occurred.All that there were to the election was the mirror reflection of the low standards of our dear nation and our insti ...
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  • BE WISE 10 years ago

    Nana Aba, hear me well. There was no rigging anywhere in this election. NPP lost. U preached vigilance from day 1. Yr ppl followed ballot boxes to the police station to sleep by it, they claim it is securing the ballot. So ho ...
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  • Kofi- Adu Bediako 10 years ago

    Can we stop protraying the Npp as a tribal party? Who built the Tamale General hospital? Look at how Akans vote and compare it to the Volta region and the northern parts of Ghana.
    Others go to school free,since fifty years, ...
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  • i and i 10 years ago

    so far so good sensible person, brother let be friends.

  • Good citizen 10 years ago

    JUST READ THIS AGAIN"WE ARE FED UP FROM NON AKANS ABOUT THEIR UNFAIR ATTACKS ON THE NPP" IT MEAN AKANS=NPP,SO WHEN YOU ATTACK NPP YOU ATTACK AKANS. HMMMM

  • Yiadom 10 years ago

    Thank ou my brother. I am yet to hear any NDC person make sensible argument about governance. All they do is to exploit our tribal differences. But sadly many people fall for it. When Kufuor was in power his polcies beniffite ...
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  • zion wa 10 years ago

    People like you are dangerous in our mother ghana. You are inciting and insulting what you called northerners. Anyway we don't have northners but various tribes living in upper west , upper East , and then northern region..t ...
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  • MANFRED 10 years ago

    Camillus, you don´t have to waste your time! The problem is from the very few and selfish people among the Northerners. Things like Bawumia, the ugly looking beast,Karbo and Jinapor and the rest. If these idiots have any si ...
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  • i and i 10 years ago

    hahaha don't you know that you have lowest IQ in the world? Good for nothing idiot, slut brute who are hell of you to insult the Asante's and Akyem's? You can do all your dirty politics no one cares but to insults Asante's an ...
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  • Bassing kamaldeen 10 years ago

    Another mad man

  • OGYAM 10 years ago

    Stop shouting , the bile in you will kill you early . These so called animal shit eaters are still your masters and you still a servant. Instead of being grateful, you insult them. Thy give you identity and make you relevant ...
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  • Good citizen 10 years ago

    DID I HEAR YOU SAY ASANTES GIVE NORTHERS THEIR IDENTITY, HOW COME BCOS I AM SURPRISED, I THOUGHT IT WAS THE OTHER WAY ROUND, THEY BROUGHT YOU OUT FROM MIDGETERY IF THEY IS A WORD LIKE THAT.

  • Yiadom 10 years ago

    Continue o tickkle yourself and laugh if you believe tall genes are found in only northerners. It's obvious you had no reasonable answers for Ogyam so shut up and wallow in your complex. Your hatred and low self esteem will ...
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  • Yiadom 10 years ago

    Be careful boy or you might choke in your hatred. It is very clear that you are a demeented tribalist bent on self destruction. Bawumia has more dignity probably because he does not see everything with tribal lens. Even your ...
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  • koffie 10 years ago

    Mmmmmmm

  • koffie 10 years ago

    THIS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH TRIBES

  • still rastafari 10 years ago

    different tribes,races & languages - why why??? can somebody pls tell me why cos we are not managing this situation well

  • KB 10 years ago

    Guys like you are more of the "danger" behind NPP Tribalism than even the Kwabena Agyepongs in whom tribalism is so ingrained it unwittingly sprouts out of their ears and noses and a#%*s!!Now listen up,NPP "toke belehs",NDC c ...
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  • G. K. Berko 10 years ago

    Folks, if we think we are any intelligent but bathe ourselves in abject bigotry, we are being grossly delusional.

    We see bigotry among elitist well-educated individuals all around the World. These folks may have uppity co ...
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  • Good citizen 10 years ago

    WHY ARE PRETENDING,DON'T YOU KNOW WHY?LET ME TELL YOU THIS NORTHERNERS FUCK THEIR LADIES BETTER, AND THE LADIES TELL THEM, SO WHAT DO YOU EXPECT,I CAN TELL YOU THOSE INSULTING NORTHERNERS, THESE ARE THE CHILDREN OF NORTHERN C ...
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  • mensah abrampa 10 years ago

    Come again Tia! Which political party has fed fat on the tribal divide in the nation more than the NDC?
    Kofi Awonoor Williams, a celebrated poet, is more remembered by his tribal posturings and effusions. His well document ...
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  • Armah Amartefio 10 years ago

    Another idiot with inferiority complex. All u r saying is because u and your kinsmen feel inferior no one should criticize you eh! You attribute unsubstantiated statements to Dr Busia but ignore tribal statement made by you ...
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  • lsam@interbaum.com 10 years ago

    EXCELLENT ARTICLE !!!
    Congratulation for the excellent article. It is full of undisputed facts. An article of this calibre should attract at least 100 comments.

    As a secondary school teacher I have had the opportunity ...
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  • Yiadom 10 years ago

    Hmmmmm. Did you actually read the article? Did I hear you say it's full of undisputed facts? Maybe yyour standard is quite low else this article won't pass for shit!!!

  • ONUAJOE 10 years ago

    I just can not understand why the writer thinks what he sees as Agyapong's and Sir John's mistakes makes NPP a tribal Party. There are also a whole lot of factual errors in the article. He unfortunately labels Busia as a trib ...
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  • Yiadom 10 years ago

    Thanks Onua. This is what the NDC is noted for, fabrications and character assassinations. But I noticed from the comments that most people didn't believe him. The NDC lacks ideas and vision so the only weapon left for them i ...
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  • Son of man 10 years ago

    They are the ones that keeps that keeps this flame of tribalism burning, some of them very educated and well travelled, some are very religious even pastors who worship with all Ghanaians every Sunday in church and Mosques.
    ...
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  • kofi mensah 10 years ago

    Folks, we say we are practicing democracy, yet we cannot feed ourselves. A friend of mine jokingly said we will soon gather at the airport every evening at 1800hrs GMT to receive our fufu from China. Instead of thinking about ...
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  • K Gyamfi 10 years ago

    Dear Camillus

    I was deeply troubled by your feature article on the above-named subject.
    What you wrote is a gross misrepresentation of NPP and it was time you put a stop to this. What Kwabena Agyepong is alleged to have ...
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  • Brother 10 years ago

    it is useless to make a point in Ghana. CIA has won