He said winning an election in Ghana is not about dying rather, he said, it involves packaging your messages well for the people to reflect on them to make voting decisions.
Dr. Asah Asante told TV3’s Komla Adom on the mid-day news on Wednesday, September 8, that “I am saying that it is unfortunate because our politics is not a do or die affair, no it is not. It is a contest of ideas and then a show of your work, in other words, your records. So if it becomes a do-or-die affair then it is something else.
“How different is it from all die be die? These two statements don’t help anybody at all because we are building a society, if you want to win power you need to sell your message and put the macros and let the Ghanaian people reflect on them and give you their votes. It is unfortunate, we don’t need that.”
Mr. Mahama had indicated that that the 2024 election is going to be a do-or-die affair at the polling stations.
He said that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has learned lessons from the 2020 general elections.
Speaking on Techiman-based Akina FM’s on Tuesday, September 7, 2021, as part of his thank-you tour, Mr. Mahama said “This current president has made elections life and death for him, he uses his Delta forces and invisible forces enrolled in the security agencies.
“You see some Military and police officers and ask whether these are indeed officers. They wear earrings and all sorts 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 learned 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.
Despite criticisms against his comments, Mr. Mahama in an interview on Moonlite FM in Sunyani on Wednesday, September 8, justified his comments saying they were harmless and “those who don’t understand English should stop the school interpretation”.
He insisted that “there were frauds in [the 2020] elections. . .that is why I said we learned a lesson from it”.
“So the next elections,” he said in Twi, “we won’t wait and go to the Supreme Court.”
He added in English: “We will do it at the polling station and collation centre and I say it will be do-or-die.”
For him, Africans, as Ghanaians are, should know that proverbs are part of daily expressions and are used especially in situations where the use of plain language will not be prudent.
“In English, we have idiomatic expressions. Those who dropped out of school do not understand idiomatic expressions. Do or die means a critical assignment you have and you must do the needful or perish. And so you must do the needful,” he stated in English, changing tongue to Twi by saying: “I meant NDC must not wait to go to the Supreme Court again. What we must do at the polling station and collation center must be done!” Read Full Story
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