Ernest Owusu Bempah, the Deputy Director of Communications of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has praised President John Dramani Mahama for making the NDC more attractive in his second term.
According to Ernest Owusu Bempah, he will give President Mahama 100 per cent for appointing those who worked tirelessly for him to become president again.
He explained that the opposition New Patriotic Party must be concerned about how John Mahama is managing the affairs of the country.
Ernest Owusu Bempah further asserted that President Mahama is indirectly making the NDC attractive to the youths, and the NPP must be concerned.
Speaking on Atinka TV, Ernest Owusu Bempah explained, “He has done very well, and so I will give him 100 per cent, especially for appointing people who worked tirelessly to campaign for him during the election. This shows that he was grateful for their efforts”.
“From what he is doing now, if you belong to a political party such as the NPP, you have to be worried because, indirectly, he is making his party attractive to the youth.
“And if we do not restructure ourselves as a political party, we will suffer because the new youth and the current crop of individuals venturing into politics are thinking differently,” he added.
In related news, Ernest Owusu Bempah last year told the NPP it has no right to criticise Mahama over galamsey.
Owusu Bempah emphasised that NPP members have no moral right to exploit the matter of galamsey for political gain, as some of them were involved in illegal mining, which hindered the former president Akufo-Addo’s efforts to combat galamsey.
Speaking in a self-recorded video shared on X, Ernest Owusu Bempah stated, “I have seen NPP members who have risen, having the moral audacity to fight galamsey, and have the nerve to criticise John Mahama. I, Owusu Bempah, will not go into that tangent when I speak; people think I am just being controversial, but it is a fact”.
He recounted that in 2012, NPP members organised a demo against Mahama for turning Ghana into a galamsey headquarters, but did the same when they came to office in 2016.
Owusu Bempah added, “We were here in 2012 when we organised demonstrations against John Mahama, claiming he had turned Ghana into a galamsey headquarters. Our own party members used galamsey for politics with the sitting president, Akufo-Addo, putting his presidency on the line.
But allegedly, due to the people around him being part of galamsey activities, some of them came to continue the NDC’s mess. So what moral right do we have to even come back and today use galamsey to do politics?”
He further highlighted that, “Akufo-Addo was prepared to fight galamsey, but because some people were doing it under his own watch, allegedly, our own government could not fight to achieve the dreams of Akufo-Addo”.
Watch the video below:
“President Mahama has made NDC more attractive in his second administration. Strategically, NPP should be worried” — Ernest Owusu Bempeh, Deputy Director of communications, NPP pic.twitter.com/tq6VfFXVQL
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