Mahama’s contender needs psychological attention — Mosquito
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has described the only person challenging President John Mahama in the party’s upcoming presidential primary as a demented man who needs medical attention.
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According to Mr Nketia, popularly called General Mosquito, George Boateng’s claim that he had already picked forms for the contest was a lie which must be treated with contempt.
“He has not picked any form. I heard he has been in my office but I told my clerk that I am currently not in Accra. It is not true that anybody has picked a nomination form for the presidential primary.”
That man should be sent to the Pantang Hospital because he is suffering. He has never called me as he claims,” Mosquito told Kasapa FM in an interview.
But in a rebuttal, Boateng said the NDC General Secretary rather needed help.
“When I was going to pick the forms, I did not go to Malata Constituency. I went to the party headquarters with journalists.”
“Asiedu Nketia should be the one to be sent to Pantang Hospital and not me,” he fumed.
The ruling party will hold its presidential and parliamentary primaries on November 7.
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In another development, the general secretary has also pooh-poohed the New Patriotic Party’s claim that the current voters register is bloated with foreigners and should be replaced.
He said he was baffled that the NPP, which in 2007 was pushing for a law to allow Ghanaians living abroad to vote, would today seek to disenfranchise some 76,000 voters because it believed they were foreigners.
The NPP has been ratcheting up pressure on the Electoral Commission to compile a new voters register.
With copies of the Togolese voters register and that of Ghana, the NPP said it used biometric facial recognition technology and found potential matches of 76,000 names on both registers.
These voters used the same names, had the same facial and other features on the voters registers of both countries, the party is claiming.
But according to the NDC, they were Ghanaians living in Togo who returned to vote on election day.
Making historical references, Asiedu Nketia argued that during the revolutionary days of the early '80s, some two million Ghanaians returned home after being forced out of Nigeria.
“So if 76,000 people register [from Togo], is it not too small?” Asiedu Nketia told a cheering crowd during the launch of the NDC biometric registration cards in Wa on Monday.
The witty politician said just as the NPP developed a following in European countries, the NDC developed a following in West Africa.
“When they were busily opening branches in Germany, I was busy opening branches in Togo and Ivory Coast,” he said.
He urged the party supporters to get into the neighbouring countries, convince them to come and register anytime the EC opens registration to enable them to take part in the general election.
The General Secretary wanted the NPP to focus on campaigning. "Elephants don’t look backwards but rather forward," he said.
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Asiedu Nketia also dismissed calls for the borders to be closed during elections.
“Why don’t we close the airports?” he wondered insisting “Ghanaians in London are not better than Ghanaians in Burkina Faso.”