Mahama has no proud record in Zongo; he even cancelled Arabic instructors allowance - Zongo group to NDC

A youth group in the Zongos which advocates for development, the Zongo Movement for Development (ZOMOD), has accused the NDC of engaging in politics of insults in the Zongos because its flagbearer, former President John Dramani Mahama has no proud achievements in the Zongos they can talk about.

In a press statement, the group said the NDC has been engaging in a "disrespectful campaign of calumny" against the person of Dr. Bawumia in the Zongos, stating that instead of "respecting the people of Zongos with campaign of issues" the NDC has rather unleashed its senior officials to insult Bawumia in their Zongo campaign, a situation they described as "brutish."

The statement added that it understood why the NDC would choose the path of campaign of insults and not of issues because the party has nothing to offer.

"Rather than showing the people of Zongo respect and telling us the record of former President Mahama, if any, in the Zongos, when he was Vice President and President between 2009 and 2017 respectively, the NDC has rather chosen the brutish path of launching insulting attacks on the person of Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, anytime it meets a Zongo audience.

"But we can understand why the NDC and its national leadership are so bent on targeting the person of Dr. Bawumia in the Zongos, instead of selling the record of its candidate, former President Mahama in the Zongos.

"First, former President Mahama has no proud record of tangible development in the Zongos, during his time as Vice President and President.

"Second, the NDC is shaken by how the Zongo community, across the country, is warmly embracing the Presidential bid of Dr. Bawumia.

"Third, the NDC's tribal campaign in the Zongos, which used to accuse the NPP of anti-Zongo party, has now been rendered ineffective, following the historic election of Dr. Bawumia as the NPP's Flagbearer, after being an impactful Vice President for the past seven and half years.

"Clearly, if the NDC had any good record of former President Mahama to sell in the Zongos, its leaders and spokespersons would not be raining unprintable insults on Bawumia as their main campaign message to the people of Zongos."

The group referenced a number of times national leadership of the NDC, including National Chairman, Asiedu Nketiah; General Secretary Fiifi Kwetey; Alhaji Sinare and others have rained insults on Dr. Bawumia, who the statement described as a 'proud' son of Zongo.

While condemning the NDC's "insulting" campaign approach, the group hailed the NPP's approach of selling the good works of Dr. Bawumia to the people of Zongo without any insult.

"For a party that cancelled allowances for Arabic instructors in various Makaranta, introduced by President Kufuor, we can, perhaps, understand why the NDC is avoiding politics of issues in the Zongos.

"Again, for a party which left over one thousand Ghanaian Muslims, who had fully paid their Hajj fees stranded at the Hajj Village and could not send them to Hajj in 2016, requiring the then President Mahama to apologise during the 2016 Eid ul Adha prayers at the Independence Square, we can, perhaps, understand why the likes of Asiedu Nketia and the NDC Zongo leadership, would run away from issue-based campaign.

"Unlike the NDC, the NPP and the Bawumia Zongo Campaign, have been propagating the achievements and record of its party and candidate during its meetings with the Zongo community. What is even more remarkable is that the Bawumia Zongo campaign has catalogued every project it has built in the Zongos throughout the country and provided locations for verification," it added.

Below is the full statement:

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