Spokesperson for the New Patriotic Party
flagbearer turned the New Patriotic Party Upper West Regional rally, a major
political event into a solemn Islamic chant, praying for the invincible hand of
Allah to lead a change in government.Mustapha Hamid said the government
in an unfettered show of power and opulence has bought all the media airwaves
and the conscience of individuals all in a desperate move to retain
power.
However, he maintained the ruling government cannot buy the
conscience of Allah.
"They have all the money. They have bought all the
television stations, they've bought radio stations, they've bought everybody but
they cannot buy the Almighty Allah," he told a tumultuous crowd of NPP
faithful.
Leading a chant of la ilaha illallah, meaning "there is no
deity but God," Hamid said he and the New Patriotic Party supporters will chant
John Mahama out of government.
The party rounded off its political
activity in the Upper West Region, Wednesday with a well attended rally, with
some 13 days to go for the 2016 elections.
All the party bigwigs,
including the presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo and his Running mate Dr
Mahamudu Bawumia all attending.
Mustapha Hamid and other leaders of the
party took turns to excite the crowd with their messages and change rhetorics
before the flagbearer took over the podium, accusing the president of lacking an
understanding of the tenets of democracy.
He did not understand why the
president must criticise him for begging for votes.
"This president
doesn't understand what democracy is all about. Democracy means the power is in
the people of Ghana. You are the people who wield the sovereign power of our
nation and if I am seeking on your behalf to exercise that power for your
welfare do i not have to plead with you? he asked the excited crowd.
"I
will plead and plead and plead. I will never stop pleading," he said, adding he
will never abuse the confidence the people will repose in him if voted into
office.
"...I am not coming to steal the money of the people into my
pocket. That is not why I am coming into politics.
"We are coming to do a
job of our country to use the little brains, strenght and intelligence to push
the country forward to get jobs and make progress in our country.
He said
the Upper West Region is home to the NPP and has produced outstanding Ghanaians
who gave it their lives for the great NPP tradition and for the development of
the country.
"Help me. I need your help so that we can build this new
Ghana that we have ahead of us and you are going to be the greatest
beneficiaries.
"The future of nation is bright. The prospects of Ghana
are tremendous. What it needs is good leadership, honest leadership visionary
leadership and we can put it all together and create for ourselves a prosperous
and great nation. |
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