Former President John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has accused Vice President and New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia of making misleading statements during his media engagement on Sunday, August 25, just a day after the NDC launched its manifesto.
Mahama asserted that Dr. Bawumia’s “sudden stammering posture” during the encounter revealed his dishonesty and ulterior motives, raising doubts about his credibility.
Additionally, Mahama alleged that Dr. Bawumia and the NPP used the media event as a diversionary tactic to distract attention from the NDC’s manifesto and policy proposals.
Mahama made these comments on Tuesday, August 27, during the first day of his two-day campaign tour in Ada, Greater Accra Region.
“We [NDC] announced that we were going to launch our manifesto on the 24th of August. Immediately our [NPP] opponents announced that they were going to do a media encounter on the 25th of August, the very next day.
“You know, the intention for doing that media encounter, the next day after we had announced our manifesto was to turn the attention of Ghanaians from the NDC manifesto. That was the main reason, that they decided to do a media encounter the very next day that we launched our manifesto.”
“When you do something with devious intentions, it backfires on you. You know how to tell if people are lying. If there are people who are smooth talkers who can speak like machine guns, the time when they become stammerers you know they are lying.
Somebody who has been speaking “ratatatata” like AK 47 suddenly, at a media encounter, starts stammering.”