Event Organizer, Whitney Boakye-Mensah has reacted to former president John Dramani Mahama’s claims that he does not want to associate celebrities with his campaign because it could ruin their career.
In reaction, Whitney believs that Mahama has a different stance on celeb endorsement of political campaigns because he is now in oppoisiton.
According to her when Mahama was in power and had all the resources at his disposal, he filled his 2016 campaign with various celebrities with dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale headlining them.
She was quoted by peacefm online: ”It looks like when you’re in opposition, you seem to make very sensible arguments. It cuts across whatever party political colors. And it also looks like when you’re in opposition, that is when you realize your finances…because from what we learnt about governance and so forth, how money is when you’re in government; you don’t get that in opposition.
”It looks like when you’re in opposition too, endorsements from not just celebrities but from Chiefs, opinion leaders cuts across; it doesn’t come like when you’re in power. When we accept some of these things, we can move on with our politics but unfortunately, we play the role of ostriches and then we pretend when we’re in power and when we’re in opposition too, then we pretend”, she added.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
