{"id":240103,"date":"2016-08-17T14:36:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T14:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=240103"},"modified":"2016-08-17T14:36:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T14:36:47","slug":"mahamas-sleeping-comment-against-nana-addo-unpresidential-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/mahamas-sleeping-comment-against-nana-addo-unpresidential-npp\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama’s ‘sleeping comment’ against Nana Addo ‘unpresidential’ – NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has described comments made by President John Dramani Mahama on his ongoing tour of the Western Region about their flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo as unpresidential.<\/p>\n
Nana Addo had bemoaned the state of roads in the region during his five-day tour of the region, criticizing the government for failing to honour its promise to fix the roads.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”GF87biJZjdX6AXULAL11CjAnqKC5voXb”]President Mahama, who is on the tour to kick-start the National Democratic Congress (NDC)\u2019s campaign after it was launched last Sunday,<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>hit back at Nana Addo, stating that the NPP flagbearer must have been sleeping<\/strong><\/a><\/span> to have missed the good work done by the government on the roads.<\/p>\n \u201cDuring my campaign in 2012 , I realized that most of the roads here are very bad. I made the promise to invest heavily in roads here if I am elected President. I have kept my promise. Under the cocoa roads programme, most of the projects are in the Western Region. The majority of roads in this region, are many, I cannot name them. I heard someone came here and said he had not seen these roads. I am sure he was sleeping at the time,\u201d he said<\/p>\n However, addressing a news conference today [Wednesday], the Director of Operations for the NPP campaign, John Boadu, said the language used by the President at the start of his campaign was unfortunate and not befitting his position.<\/p>\n According to him, given the President\u2019s own intolerance for \u2018fair criticism\u2019, it was disappointing the response he had given to Nana Addo\u2019s valid concerns about the roads.<\/p>\n