Ghana @ 66: I Won’t Be Part Of NPP’s Jamboree – John Mahama

Ghana @ 66: I Won’t Be Part Of NPP’s Jamboree – John Mahama

Former President John Dramani Mahama has questioned why the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has hijacked Ghana’s Independence Day Celebration and has turned it into a party jamboree.

According to the former president, Independence Day celebrations are supposed to be solemn and a national event but the NPP has turned it to a party celebration.

In view of this and other reasons, the aspiring National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) flagbearer says he won’t be part of this year’s 66th Ghana’s Independence Day Celebration which is taking place in Adaklu Youth Resource Centre in the Volta Region.

Mr. Mahama further stated that he cannot understand why a country struggling to purchase vaccines for polio and measles to vaccinate babies will spent huge sums of monies to bus party supporters to the Volta Region in the name of Independence Day Celebration.

He again clarified that although he is an Nkrumahist and Independence Day Celebration means a lot him, he don’t want to be associated with a celebration which has neglected very important pressing issues in the country and also tainted by a political party.

“Why should I be celebrating Independence Day when I cannot get vaccines? My maternal sibling suffered from polio. He was crippled by polio. So I know what polio is. We have gained strength in the fight against polio. Fewer children are getting crippled by polio. Today are children cannot get polio vaccines. We cannot get measles vaccines. And as long as we don’t get it, the diseases are going to spread again and you are going to celebrate 66 years of Independence,” Mr. Mahama lamented.

He further continued that, “I won’t celebrate it. I’m not going to be part of it. Independence is a solemn national celebration. We should celebrate it at the Independence Square and everybody who wanted to come could come. Today they have bussed their supporters in, they have party flags, they are wearing party T-Shirts. I don’t want to be part of a party jamboree. … I don’t want to be part of an NPP jamboree.”

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