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<\/a><\/p>\nAddressing residents of Lawra in the Upper West Region, President Mahama, himself a native of Bole in the Northern Region, lamented, \u201cSometimes I feel sad when I see some of our northern brothers running and also doing this. They will use you and dump you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLet anything happen today and let our brother Bawumia say he is standing for president in NPP. They will never give it to him I can assure you.\u201d<\/p>\n
President Mahama hearkened back to the death of former President John Evans Atta Mills which led to him assuming the mantle of the Presidency and later the flagbearership of the NDC going into the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n
He reminded that he had the full backing of the party executives of the NDC and no congress was needed as he\u00a0opined that, \u201cif it was another party, they would have insisted there should be a congress and in that congress I would have been contested and they would have given the leadership to somebody else.\u201d<\/p>\n
President Mahama thus declared, \u201cI am proud to be a member of the NDC because I know it is a party that opens opportunities for all people of Ghana irrespective of your ethnic affiliation or you religious affiliation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Listen to President Mahama’s remarks below<\/strong><\/p>\n