Deputy General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen has says the NPP has the men to face John Mahama and the NDC boot for boot should they decide to be aggressive in the 2024 polls.
His comment comes after former president John Dramani Mahama stated that the 2024 polls will be a do or die affair.
According to him, President Akufo-Addo has enrolled thugs and hooligans into the security services ensuring elections in the country are forced to go his way.
The 2020 NDC Presidential candidate said these hooligans shot and killed people in the 2020 peoples and NDC will not sit and watch that repeat in 2024.
“This current president has made elections life-and-death for him, he uses his delta forces and invisible forces enrolled in the security agencies. ou see some Military and police officers and ask whether these are indeed officers. They wear earrings and all sort of things and you can’t tell whether this is a police officer or a soldier
“We know they have infiltrated the security with some of their people. Look at what happened at Techiman South the ways they shot at the crowd, it was intended to kill people. We hope that the next elections we won’t see scenes like that again.
“We have learnt our lessons from happenings during the 2020 polls. The 2024 elections will be won or lost at the polling station. It will be do-or-die at the polling stations. The right thing must be done during the polls.
“We will win the elections at the polling station and won’t wait for collation centre results nor petition the Supreme Court if aggrieved,” he said.
However, Nana Obiri Boahen insists the NPP will not be intimidated by Mahama in anyway, noting that they have the men and will match up with the NDC in 2024.
“This issue of ‘do or die’, I believe that we need to tread cautiously. I wasn’t expecting the former president to be drumming home, this issue of ‘do or die’. In fact, it is quite dangerous, honestly speaking. It is quite dangerous in the sense that during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-elections, the NDC came up with this slogan of ‘do or die, do or die’ and what happened eventually is part of history, a lot of casualties.
“Certainly, they cannot intimidate us, certainly not, mark my words certainly not. We’re all prepared to protect and defend the democratic credentials of this country, however, if they want to push us to the wall, to humiliate us and bully us, that cannot be possible.
“We are not cowards! We are not cowards! We are men,” adding “I am saying that we are all brothers and sisters and we must make sure that, this country put up its democratic credentials but to intimidate, to harass, to bully and to say that you are going to win; fair is foul and foul is fair [attributed to William Shakespeare], that can never be possible.”
Source: GhanaFeed.com
