In a moment of Twitter madness last night, John Mahama’s spokesperson, Joyce Bawah Mogtari made a daminng and explosive tribal conclusion that seeks to slander Ashantis and portray them as dangers to society.

In the said publication, Joyce Bawah Mogtari, who also speaks for John Mahama remarked that; “It is always the Ashantis! Always causing problems with their unnecessary egos. This defeatist approach won’t work. John Mahama is NDC and NDC is John Mahama”

It is the most explosive tribal tirade ever. Very disingenuous, deplorable, treacherous and unacceptable, and I forcefully oppose this obvious denigration of the Ashantis. I am unnerved by her outburst, and her stance. Equally troubling is her assertion that John Mahama is the NDC and NDC is John Mahama.

Obviously, this ethnic and tribal sentimentalism being used as factional weapon in NDC by Mahama’s spokesperson is geared towards the ostracization of hard working Ashantis in the NDC.

And this showed, once again, why the NDC have been struggling to win national elections since 2016.

Sadly, while Mahama is presiding over this toxic atmosphere in the party, the bigotry of his followers keep growing and breeding further hatred, and he’s doing nothing to restore dignity within the ranks of the party.

He has failed to call his aides, who have engaged in one irresponsibility or the other to order.

How can any reasonable NDC member reason that the Ashantis are the problem of the NDC simply because Dr Kwabena Duffuor is insisting on holding the party leadership accountable?

Again, how conveniently self-serving of Joyce Bawah Mogtari? She is following Mahama campaigning for votes in the Ashanti Region and at the same time calling Ashantis names?

Need I remind Joyce Bawah Mogtari that the NDC needs the Ashanti votes more than the Ashantis need the NDC?

Is she aware that without at least 30% of the Ashanti votes, the NDC can never win any national elections anymore?

Joyce Bawah Mogtari‘s pathetic display of hysteria and freak show does not help the cause of the NDC and she must be sacked now if the party want to make any credible showings in the 2024 elections.

I am by this public statement calling on the National Executive Committee of the NDC to sack Joyce Bawah Mogtari from the party for bringing the name of the party into disrepute.

This is a woman who together with her husband have been feeding fat on the party. She was a minster of state while the husband occupied the CEO position of the Food and Drugs Board. Now, both husband and wife still want to continue to eat with both hands and so they are out there engaging in tribal sentimentalism.

It is a tragedy that in AD 2023, ethinic politics and the hatred for the Ashantis has re-entered the NDC mainstream politics through a toxic amalgam of spillover from vilification of Dr Kwabena Duffuor.

Surely, the NDC can do better than this, and recognise the fact that Joyce Bawa is a liability, and that she deserves to be sacked from the party.

To deny the Ashantis their rightful place in the NDC and national politics is to assault the values of freedom and justice for all.

Enough is enough!!

Signed: