The flagbearers of the Convention People?s Party (CPP) and the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) have expressed grave reservation about the intemperate language used by politicians on radio talk shows across the country. They added that the inflammatory language used by politicians, especially those belonging to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), was bad.
In an interview in Accra on July 6, the CPP flagbearer, Comrade George Opesika Aggudey, pointed out that the unprintable statements uttered by a leading member of the NPP and another on Peacefm last Monday, if not addressed would go a long way to raise the political temperature of the country. ?I do not subscribe the situation where politicians allow their emotions and passions to get the better part of them such that they make statements that leave a sour taste in the mouths of the broad masses of the people, he said. He said with the approach of the December parliamentary and presidential elections, there was the tendency that such comments would reach fever pitch and pollute the political environment leading to disastrous consequences for the nation.
According to the GCPP flagbearer, Comrade Dan Lartey, Monday was a day of shame for the country as two prominent politicians traded invectives on Peacefm to the shock and dismay of the broad masses of the people. The accusations and counter accusations traded by the two gentlemen on radio did not merit their great stature and pedigree; they must really bow down their heads in shame and apologise to the general public, he said.
Mr. Lartey explained that politicians were regarded as models, especially by the youth of the country and for such high profile politicians to through mud at each other should be condemned by all peace-loving Ghanaians.
