NPP and Mahama Are Inseparable - Moshake

• Feb 21, 2023

A former executive of the Tema East constituency branch of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Stephen Ashitey Adjei, has said former President John Mahama is an eternal bedfellow of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).

In a social media post that he made on Monday, Mr. Ashitey Adjei, who is popularly called Moshake, said the former President will not be able to disentangle himself from the NPP because of the deep ties that bind them.

“For one, almost all the family members of Mr. John Mahama are NPP. Mr. Mahama’s beloved stepmother, Madam Joyce Tamakloe, is a dyed in the wool NPP woman.

“Again, Mr. John Mahama’s political mentor and role model, former President John Agyekum Kufuor, is also a central character in the NPP.

“So how can Mr. Mahama ever break away from the NPP party?” Moshake asked.

Moshake makes the declaration in the wake of what is viewed as Mr. Mahama’s shocking admission that he made mistakes while in office as President, citing his decision to purchase tractors for farmers as one of those mistakes.

According to Moshake, the admission which is coming at a time that can be hurtful to the NDC is a well-timed statement that Mr. Mahama deliberately makes to provoke taunts from the ruling NPP which has already succeeded in branding Mr. John Mahama as incompetent.

Mr. Mahama, he says, is under instruction from former President Kufuor, to contest for the 2024 flagbearership of the NDC so that Mahama can be used to keep the NDC in opposition longer.

“The way Mr. Mahama has been setting up for the NDC to lose is that, he has first become an impediment in the way of very winsome people in the party, including Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, so that these winsome people cannot become flagbearers.

Then after that, he has been making statements that only serve to be advantageous to the ruling NPP.”

Moshake reiterated his call on the party to shun former President from Mr. Mahama and allow in, “a thoroughbred and loyal NDC man who will not have any ties to the NPP.

“This is the only way to position the NDC to win against the NPP in elections again.”