Former President John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has launched a scathing critique against Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearer.
During a campaign stop in Ada, Greater Accra Region, on Tuesday, August 27, Mahama accused Dr. Bawumia of making misleading statements during a recent media engagement, suggesting that his conduct revealed underlying dishonesty.
Mahama pointed out what he termed as Dr. Bawumia’s “sudden stammering posture” during the media encounter, held on Sunday, August 25. He asserted that this was an indication of Dr. Bawumia’s lack of truthfulness, contrasting it with his usual confident and rapid speech delivery.
“When you do something with devious intentions, it backfires on you. You know how to tell if people are lying. If there are people who are smooth talkers who can speak like machine guns, the time when they become stammerers you know they are lying. Somebody who has been speaking “ratatatata” like AK 47 suddenly, at a media encounter, starts stammering.”
The former president went further to accuse the NPP of using the media engagement as a deliberate strategy to overshadow the NDC’s manifesto launch, which took place the day before. He claimed that the timing of the NPP’s media event was not coincidental but was intended to divert public attention from the NDC’s policy proposals and vision for the country.
“We [NDC] announced that we were going to launch our manifesto on the 24th of August. Immediately our [NPP] opponents announced that they were going to do a media encounter on the 25th of August, the very next day,” Mahama stated.
“You know, the intention for doing that media encounter, the next day after we had announced our manifesto was to turn the attention of Ghanaians from the NDC manifesto. That was the main reason, that they decided to do a media encounter the very next day that we launched our manifesto.”
Mahama’s comments were part of a broader critique of the NPP’s governance and campaign strategies as he began his two-day campaign tour of the Greater Accra Region. He used the opportunity to rally his supporters, urging them to see through what he described as the NPP’s attempts to distract and mislead the electorate.
