Ghanaian Center-Right Youth: "President Mahama Is A Morally Bankrupt Womanizer Who Is Unfit To Rule Ghana"

Ghanaian President John Mahama

Regular Booker Rising readers may recall that John Mahama took over as Ghana's president after John Atta Mills's death back in July, after previously serving as vice president. You also know that Ghana's presidential election is coming up in December, so they've got a very heated campaign right now. The Young Patriots (which is the center-right New Patriotic Party's youth wing) has issued a press statement claiming that the center-left president is a poor Christian role model. From Peace FM Online (Ghana): "Ladies and gentlemen, President Mahama in terms of character can be aptly described as untrustworthy, deceitful, unfaithful, corrupt, womanizer and indecisive in the running of the affairs of Ghana. Ladies and gentlemen, President Mahama is the chairman of the Ghana Aids commission. He has in that capacity advanced the objectives of the organization through the advocacy of safe sex through the use of condoms, the practice of abstinence to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases."

Oh, it gets better: "Whilst supposedly preaching these ideals, ladies and gentlemen, the President is practicing the opposite. He is on record to have accepted cheating on his wife on uncountable occasions which had led to several many issues outside wedlock. He intimates his wife understand[s] the circumstances under which this happened (Africawatch magazine of September pg 45). Originally, the President’s CV [curriculum vitae] indicated that he had 9 children, but on assumption of the Presidency, it changed to 7 and in the current issue of the Africawatch magazine, he was unsure of the number of children he has though his close allies put it as 15."

More from the Young Patriots press release: "Ladies and gentlemen, if President Mahama does not see having 15 children outside marriage as womanizing, we least expect him to accept that GH¢160m of the tax payers money [involving botched medical college scholarships] will be termed as corruption. The President has rewarded people who aided his brother to swindle Ghanaians and collapse Merchant Bank plc with positions of financial advisors in his office."