[ 2016-11-20 ]

Mahama not the kind of Northern President we want – Bawumia
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has stated Northerners cannot
be proud of Mahama because his leadership which
has been characterised by “incompetence and
corruption” has worsened the plight of
Ghanaians.

According to him, Mahama has failed to use his
stewardship to advance the interests of the
people.

Dr. Bawumia made these comments in Kaleo in the
Nadowli-Kaleo Constituency of the Upper West
region, on Saturday, in apparent response to
comments the President also made in the Upper West
a day earlier.

“President John Mahama tells us that he is our
Northern brother; that he is our Northern son and
so we should vote for him. He told us this in 2012
and he is back in the Upper West region and he is
spreading the same message, that he is our
Northern President.

But we have a Northern President who presides over
the looting of funds meant for the development of
the North, we have a Northern President who
presides over the lack of feeding grants for
senior high schools in the north, we have a
Northern President who is cancelling teacher and
nursing training allowances and we have a Northern
President who is presiding over so much corruption
in this country”, he said.

Dr. Bawumia observed that Northerners will not be
reduced to people who should only be happy because
they have a fellow Northerner as President even
though the leadership of that Northerner continues
to pile up suffering after suffering on them and
said that what Northerners want is leadership that
solves their problems and leadership that works
for all of Ghana including the people of the
North.

“So you can just not tell me that simply because
you are a Northerner, I should keep you in office
to continue to make me suffer. We will not suffer
just to keep President John Mahama in office. We
want someone to come to office to solve our
problems, not somebody who sits in office and says
I am a Northern President so I am going to let
them steal your SADA money, cancel your Teacher
and Nursing Training Allowances, collapse the
National Health Insurance Scheme and not provide
any services for your socio-economic advancement;
that is not the type of Northern President we
want.

“We want a President of vision, integrity and a
President who is honest and a President who will
get up and do the work for all the people of Ghana
including the people from the three Northern
regions”, he added.

The NPP Vice-Presidential Candidate remarked that
not only had John Mahama brought untold suffering
on Northerners and failed to show the needed
commitment to developing the North and all of
Ghana, his leadership had also damaged the
Northern brand with corruption and a bad record
over all.

“I will rather have a President who advances the
interest of the people of the North, I will rather
have a President who does things that put us
forward, and that is why we are asking for
change.”

“Yes John Mahama is our brother but he has
failed us completely. In fact Northerners never
used to be known as corrupt people. We were always
poor but we had integrity, we had honesty and we
could never be pointed at as being corrupt. Today
we are being pointed at, that brand is being
tarnished by President John Mahama who by the way
is the worst performing President in the history
of the 4th Republic, you can look at the economic
data”, he noted.

Source - Starrfm

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