[ 2016-11-22 ]

Bawumia replies Mahama: Feel pity for suffering masses instead
The vice-presidential candidate of the New
Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has
challenged President John Mahama to feel sorry for
the plight of Ghanaians and not the electorate
from Northern Ghana who have decided to vote him
out of office.

“You should pity people who do not have a job;
you should pity people who cannot access
healthcare because the National Health Insurance
Scheme (NHIS) has collapsed. You should feel pity
for school children who are going hungry because
the National School Feeding programme is
collapsing. You should feel pity for secondary
school children who are going hungry because of
feeding grants. You should feel pity for graduates
who cannot get jobs three and six years after
graduating. You should feel pity for cocoa farmers
whose plants are dying and fishermen who cannot
get fish because of the high cost of inputs,” he
said on Monday, November 21.

President Mahama, while campaigning in Lawra, in
the Upper West Region said: “I pity Northerners
who are calling for change,” adding that he felt
sad for the New Patriotic Party’s
vice-presidential candidate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia
– a northerner – because the NPP will only
“use you and dump you”.

But Dr Bawumia, who is with Nana Akufo-Addo on a
campaign tour in the Upper East Region, pointed
out at a rally that the suffering masses are those
calling for change and are determined to vote for
a competent and incorruptible leader who will
develop the country.

“These are the people who want change, and it
shows the insensitivity of this government and
this president who has the audacity to say that he
feels pity for northerners who want change. It is
not only northerners, but everyone wants
change,” he said.

“We want a visionary leader who is not corrupt
and competent, and that is Nana Akufo-Addo, and it
does not matter whether you are a northerner or
southerner.”

Source - Classfmonline

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