Former President John Rawlings has joined a large section of the public in condemning the tribal comments made by former Transport minister Dzifa Attivor, describing the remarks as unfortunate.
Mrs Attivor made a passionate appeal to residents of the Volta region to vote back the NDC in the upcoming elections in order to avoid the vicious NPP government from witch-hunting of politicians from the region.
Attivor who resigned her post last year following the embarrassing controversy that surrounded the bus rebranding contract awarded NDC supporter Selassie Ibrahim noted that the NPP has the proclivity for jailing NDC bigwigs from the region, when they are in power.
“When the NPP came to power in 2001, a lot of our people were sent to prison; Victor Selormey, Dan Abordakpui, and so on, was imprisoned. Was it because no other persons committed crime in Ghana? But it was only Ewes that they jailed.
“I want to entreat you not do anything for me and Fiifi Kwetey go to prison. It lies with you all to ensure that no Ewe person goes to prison. So I am pleading with you to work hard and deliver the 120 thousand vote target for the party in the constituency,” she said.
But in a statement, the former Leader said he finds it distasteful that the ex minister made reference to him in making her claims in the unfortunate statements.
“I find it distasteful that aside making ethnocentric references accusing the NPP Presidential candidate of being tribalistic, she also insinuated that because I was the Founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the electorate in the Volta Region should vote for the party on that basis.
“Before making such unfortunate statements let’s remove the logs in our own eyes. I do not subscribe to the politics of ethnic bias and never have. While I may not be a fan of the NPP, I know their presidential candidate is not tribalistic or ethnocentric. Whatever Nana Addo’s shortcomings, tribalism is not one of them,” Rawlings said.
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