{"id":234450,"date":"2016-07-27T06:04:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T06:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=234450"},"modified":"2016-07-27T06:04:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T06:04:38","slug":"suhuyinis-comments-expose-ndcs-tribal-blackmail-strategy-karbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/suhuyinis-comments-expose-ndcs-tribal-blackmail-strategy-karbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Suhuyini’s comments expose NDC’s ‘tribal blackmail’ strategy – Karbo"},"content":{"rendered":"
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has criticized supposed ethnocentric comments made by the parliamentary nominee of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the\u00a0Tamale North constituency, Alhassan Suhuyini.<\/p>\n
Suyuhini, who is also the host of Radio Gold\u2019s \u2018Alhaji & Alhaji\u2019 show, called on voters in the region to turn out in their numbers to vote for President Mahama on election day<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>as he was one of their own.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”ZLDudYos01N2Zle5YPGiKXJZzVSIwTtW”]However,\u00a0a Deputy Communications Director of the NPP, Anthony Karbo, has said the comments made by Suhuyini, although unfortunate, were unsurprising and indicative of his party, the\u00a0NDC’s strategy for the elections.<\/p>\n He believes that the NDC had often used tribal sentiments to coerce\u00a0voters into supporting the party in the elections in order to ensure development in that part of the country.<\/p>\n “For\u00a0Mr. Suhuyini to make these assertions, it only exposes the NDC’s long-held strategy of blackmail. They have blackmailed our people into believing that until a Northerner becomes president there is no way our problems of poverty and underdevelopment \u00a0can be addressed,” Anthony Karbo said on Eyewitness News.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to him, Suhuyini’s comments are condemnable and out of place as the Northern Region had historically supported other candidates who were not from the North.<\/p>\n “The comments of Mr. Suhuyini are quite unfortunate and must be condemned. They are reckless and in fact, goes to insult our very existence as a people and he must bow down his head in shame. He talks about the fact that Rawlings comes from the Volta Region and Voltarians voted for him but Northerners voted massively for Rawlings as well.”<\/p>\n