Nana Addo must not select an Akan as running mate
He said the prevailing perception about the New Patriotic Party made imprudent to select an Akan as running mate the party’s flag bearer.
The NPP is widely believed to be an Akan party.
Mr. Ahiawador was speaking to Joy News on the relevance of a vice presidential candidate in terms garnering votes for the political parties.
He stressed the need for Nana Akufo-Addo to select his running mate from elsewhere who would help garner votes for the party.
According to him, ethnicity was a very important factor to consider in selecting a vice presidential candidate given the peculiar circumstances in Ghana.
On the qualities of running mates for the various presidential candidates, he said the person needed to be committed to the ideals of the party.
“The person must be a faithful and known member of the party and know what the party stands for and intends to achieve when it acquires power” he added.
The political scientists told Joy FM’s Evans Mensah that a potential running mate must be a knowledgeable person in the art of governance.
He or she must be an “able and capable material or person who can step into the [shoes] of the president if he is taken ill”, he stressed.
Mr. Ahiawador said the number of women in the country made it necessary for the flag bearers of the parties to consider gender in their calculations.
He however cautioned against selecting women without critically assessing the capabilities of such women.
He advised all presidential candidates to do their permutations well and select people that will be electoral assets to them in the December polls. source: Joyfm
Very good point but troubling, it is true that it will benifit Nana Akufo Addo to choose a non ashanti as his vice to help secure the vote of other ethinic groups in the country but this kind of politics can lead to division among tribal groups, I think it all got to do with experience, hmmm if it is true that the most experience man or woman should lead regardless of ethinic background then what happened to Aliu Mahama? NPP must watch the kind of devisive tactics they are using, I believe it is true that the NPP is an akan party heading toward destruction
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THE ASHANTIS DONT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE THATS WHY I WONT VOTE FOR AKUFFO ADDO, YOU MADE A VERY CLEAR POINT, BEFORE THE CONGRESS WHEN VEEP ALIU MAHAMA MADE HIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, PRESIDENT KUFUOR SHOULD HAVE ENDORSE HIM BUT HE DID NOT, YOU ARE VERY SMART NII, ONLY IN GHANA WILL A PRESIDENT NOT BACK HIS VICE PRESIDENT WHO HAS SERVED THE COUNTRY WELL EVEN BETTER THAN KUFUOR HIMSELF, THE EWES, DAGBAN, AND THE GAS MUST FORM AN ALLIANCE TO STOP THIS TRIBALISM, THE CASTLE IS NOT A FAMILY PROPERTY FOR THE AKANS
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Don't include the Ga's in your tribalism!
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The majority of Ghanaians are Akans (44% of the total population) therefore it is nothing wrong in electing an Akan. Please stop that nonesense that Akans don`t like other people, in no other part of Ghana live so many different ethnic groups toghter as in the Ashanti region. If you don`t like as why do you speak our language and share our culture? By the way the blood in the Ghanaian flag is mostly bloods from the Ashanti, who fought for you. Under the administration of Kufuor Ghana has become one of the leading countries in entire Africa. If he was not an Akan you would express your gratitude to him for the improvement he has brought to Ghana in terms of infrastructure, freedom of press and economic stability, but because he is an Akan you can not admit this. Without the Akans especially the Ashantis Ghana would be a much weaker nation, the whole nation benefits from the Ashanti, not only the Akans. If foreign countries speak about Ghana they mainly refer to the Ashanti people. Stop being jealous of our good reputation and higher status in the society.Whether you like it or not Ghana belongs to the Akan, but we respect everybody regardless of his tribal background. Unlike the Ewes, who do not accept other people. Kufuor is the best that could have happended to Ghana and I will vote for Nana Akuffo Addo. Ghana does not need another Rawlings, who commited numerous abuses of human rights and did not even complete any tertiary education.
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Well,I think we should stop that who speaks what language in Ghana and concentrate in building this nation we all call Ghana.I've got to be honest that I belong to the Akan group of people in Ghana for one reason ...that we have sence of humour.But one thing for sure is that wothout the strongness of the Akan people in Ghana there will have been a whole lot of mess.Look at the damage that President K4 has done to the Cedi.from 9000 to the dollar to about .95 pesewas.Who ever thought about this? the last time I saw our currency so good was in 1978 during Achampong's time that the currency was 1.25 pesewas to the US dollar.Without the wiseness ot the Akan people in Ghana...who knows?Look that bastard's regime we lost almost everything.this bastard sold Black starline with 15 ships for $3.5 million dollars.
I just don't wanna continue.Thank God for the Akan people in Ghana...Amen
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are you sick? who told you akans make up 44% of the population, nonsense, may be 44% in kumasi
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I`m studying economics (Bachelor) in Germany.I`ve got those figures from the "Embassy of Ghana", in Germany when I wrote an essay on the issue of "social work and society in Ghana".But you just have to check any reliable sources such as the World Bank or the IMF to get those figures. In 2000 the Akans (Ashanti,Fante,Nzema,the Brong,Akyem etc.) made up 44% of the total population. Today the percentage of the Akans in relation to the total population has increaed to nearly 50%. The major ethnic groups are Akan 49%, Moshi-Dagomba 16%, Ewe 13%, Ga 8%. European and other: 0.2%
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