[ 2016-11-22 ]

Tribal comments don’t win votes – Edward Brenya
A political scientist at the Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology, Dr Edward
Brenya, has said the resort to ethnocentrism by
political parties will not necessarily win them
votes.

According to him, voters have already decided on
who they will vote for come 7 December.

His comment was in reaction to President John
Mahama’s assertion that the New Patriotic Party
(NPP) will use and dump Dr Mahamudu Bawumia after
the elections.

“…The 21st century voter knows what they want.
Some of these rhetoric do not make the magic as we
have seen in the past. The USA, with all its
advanced technology and scientific analysis, got
it wrong; the global society was shocked. …We
are living in a global village; many of the
candidates know what they want. We’ve heard some
of the comments that [they’ve made]. …Whether
or not what the president said is going to be able
to resonate with the people so that it changes
minds, whether or not Nana Akufo-Addo’s response
is going to make him likeable to the people, we
don’t know. But one thing is clear: the voters
know what they want and the one that they can
trust to do what they want is who they will vote
for,” Dr Brenya told Class News.

Meanwhile, the Presiding Archbishop and General
Overseer of Action Chapel International, Nicholas
Duncan-Williams, has expressed worry over
political leaders engaging in tribal and
ethnocentric comments ahead of the 7 December
polls.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Class
News’ Kwesi Parker-Wilson at the sidelines of
the launch of the 2nd High Level Meeting of
National Leaders Aimed at Strengthening Ghana’s
Democratic Stability, Peace and Unity in Accra on
Monday 21 November, Archbishop Duncan-Williams
advised voters to choose leaders based on their
competence, and not tribe or religion.

“We shouldn’t vote for people because of their
tribe or their religion. You should vote for
people because they are Ghanaians and they have
what it takes to govern and to manage this country
and to help move this nation forward and make it
what we all want it to be. It shouldn’t be on
the grounds of tribe or religion, but it should be
on the grounds of what the individual is capable
of doing,” he stated.

Source - Classfmonline

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