The Vice President and flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has emphasized the importance of employing respectful language in the upcoming campaigns for the 2024 general elections.
He urged his opponent from the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, to run a campaign free from insults and derogatory remarks.
Dr. Bawumia asserted that the focus of the elections should be on ideas rather than personal attacks. His remarks follow Mr. Mahama’s recent criticism of religious leaders, traditional authorities, and civil society organizations, whom he accused of not holding the NPP government accountable for its actions.
During his campaign tour in the Greater Accra Region, Dr. Bawumia expressed his discontent with Mahama’s comments, implying that they stemmed from the former President’s anxiety about the potential outcome of the elections. Mr. Mahama made his statements during a campaign event in the Okaikwei North Constituency on Sunday, September 15.
We must come together and tell the government that their time is up. They have underperformed. But you will find some chiefs, pastors, traditional leaders, and Muslim leaders congratulating them for a good job done, telling him (Bawumia) that he has done well. You want to win with this kind of bad governance?
Hypocrisy is what is pulling this nation back. It doesn’t matter who is in office; we must be truthful at all times. These are the things that hinder our development.
In reply to him, Dr. Bawumia stated…..
He’s realized he is about losing miserably, so everything gets him angry. I have heard him insulting the clergy, traditional leaders, Imams, and CSOs. He says they are hypocrites.
we must have at least some standards of decency in the language we speak as politicians. The elections are not about insults, they are about ideas, it is when you have no ideas that you insult people. For us, we have bold solutions to problems.
