A Political Marketing Expert, Dr Kobby Mensah has urged for restraint among political actors in the country as the political atmosphere is too charged.
According to him, there’s the need for all to calm down and debate issues and not go at each other, saying in the quest to analyze issues restraint must be exercised.
His comment comes in the wake of condemnation by section of President John Mahama comment at an NDC rally on Thursday during which he attacked running mate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for describing his government as incompetent.
He said he’ll not have NPP communicators and Dr Bawumia call his government incompetent, as they have come nowhere near power to know what it feels like to govern.
“Did you hear Bawumia say incompetent Mahama? You’ve never held any responsibility anywhere near the presidency before; you don’t know what it is like to be President.
“I’ll take that word from Kufuor or from Rawlings because they’ve been there before. All of you guys [NPP critics] have never ever come near the presidency. [Do] you know what it takes to be a President? And you stand and say incompetent Mahama administration,” Mahama fumed at a rally in Trade Fair in Accra Monday.
President Mahama was responding to assertions by the former deputy governor of the Central Bank that excessive borrowing by his government is stalling the growth of the Ghanaian economy.
“All of them, in the offices they occupied, they should tell us what competence they displaced.
“Anyway, my competence is not for them to judge, it’s for the people of Ghana to judge, and I know that come 7 November 2016, the people of Ghana will judge my competence and they’ll give me a second term in office and NDC will win another victory by the grace of almighty God,” he stated.
But speaking to Kasapa News, Dr Kobby Mensah stated that the country has witnessed too much of politically charged atmosphere, adding that defending of one’s record can be done using temperate language.
“We need to tone down in our discourse; otherwise it causes panic in the society and when the society is panicked then we’ve lost it because there will not be rationality or you’ll not get people to reason up in a rational way, so we really need to tone down on our emotions.”
Meanwhile in a related development, the Catholic Bishop Conference at the end of its conference in Bolgatanga has also added its voice to the violence that has characterized politics in Ghana in recent times, condemning the acts.
In an interview with Kasapa News, the President of the Catholic Bishop Conference, Most Reverend Osei Bonsu, called for calm in political activities, adding that a violent political atmosphere will not inure to the development of the country.
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
