{"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

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Anthony Karbo noted that, the idea\u00a0that development in particular depends on whether those areas have representation in government was misleading, as the problems in the north persist despite having had four years of the Mahama administration.<\/p>\n

“It’s quite clear that the President repeated this same call and Northerners voted for him in 2012 to become president, and look at the kind of rot and embarrassment we have seen, the monies that have been squandered at SADA. Especially when the President comes from this part of the country and knows the problems and watched unconcerned how\u00a0his fellow Northerners squandered the money. Nowhere in the President’s tour did he talk about SADA or account to the people for the over 250 million cedis allocated to\u00a0SADA.”<\/p>\n

“Many of the schools in the Northern Region are waiting for their feeding grants. We were always told that it was because we didn’t have a Northern president who knew the difficulties of our people. President Mahama has benefited\u00a0from the school feeding grant and now as president, many years on, this school feeding grant is still a problem.”<\/p>\n

Suhuyini urges Northerners to vote for Mahama<\/strong><\/p>\n

Suhuyini\u00a0urged the electorate to emulate the voters in the Volta and Ashanti Regions who, in previous elections, have voted for Jerry John Rawlings and \u00a0John Agyekum Kufuor respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a Voltarian stood to be President the whole of Volta Region voted for him until he stopped being President. Jerry John Rawlings and when Ashanti man stood to be President the whole of Ashanti Region rallied behind him until he stopped to become President, President Kufour,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Professor Atta Mills decided to run for President the whole of central region, his home region, voted massively for him before he could win in 2008, and do you know the sad news? When John Mahama from the northern region decided to be President in 2012, the NDC in northern region lost 11 constituencies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the first time in the history of this country in the fourth Republic, we had a President who won to be President without the support of his home region.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was addressing students of the Northern School of Business (NOBISCO), where he presented relief items to victims of an inferno which recently gutted the Gbewaa Boys dormitory.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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