The Bono Regional Youth Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress Efo Worlanyo Tsekpo has alleged that former President John Dramani Mahama escaped a charm when he failed to show up at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi for the 63rd Independence Anniversary.
He claimed among others that the seat reserved for the former President was planted with fetish charm popularly known as ‘juju’ to harm the former President.
The absence of the former President at the event last Friday sparked criticisms largely from members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who have accused him of not showing statesmanship.
It is not exactly clear what prevented the former President from attending the function.
Photos of an empty seat tagged with the name John Dramani Mahama flooded social media during the Independence Day celebration amidst suggestions he deliberately refused to attend.
In a social media post seen by MyNewsGh.com, the NDC Youth leader said “They know by themselves why it has pained them so much so that they have forgotten to discuss the empty speech of the President but talk about our incoming President, John Dramani Mahama.
This clearly shows how Mahama swerved their Juju they placed on that chair for it to affect his fortunes in the December polls.
We thank God who gave wisdom to the handlers of the President to swerve the Juju Owusu Bempa gave them to place on that special chair. I wish to even advise further that President Mahama’s handlers should henceforth ensure they carry his own chair to every state function he will attend”.
Meanwhile, an aide to former President Mahama Stan Dogbe believes the talk about the absence of his boss is selective and mischievous.
“In Tamale last year, was former President John Agyekum Kufuor there, and is government suggesting that by his absence he did not act as a Statesman and therefore petty, knowing the seeming discontent among some of his loyalists within the system?
Was President Rawlings at the Friday event in Kumasi? And why was his chair not labeled supposedly and photographed and circulated?” he questioned.
