The Mahama 2024 Campaign has warned the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to stop destroying the billboards of their flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, and parliamentary candidates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
The Campaign team mentioned the Chief Executive of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) as one of the alleged persons pulling down the billboards of the former President Mahama, mounted by Alliance Media in Tema.
A statement by the Campaign Team stated that the act is unacceptable and constitutes a needless provocative attempt to raise the political temperature in the country.
“Alliance Media, a legally registered Ghanaian advertising business, has the rightful permission to mount Out-of-Home (OOH) and Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) sites nationwide. They diligently pay the required annual fees to the TMA and other assemblies.
“Therefore, it is utterly unacceptable for the TMA chief executive to tear down their legally placed billboard, which the Mahama Campaign rented and paid for”, the spokesperson of the Mahama Campaign Joyce Bawah Mogtari stated.
She continued: “While we expect Alliance Media to take legal action against the TMA for this act, we want to warn the TMA boss and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that such needless acts, which lead to deliberate political clashes and violence, are detrimental to the growth of our democracy”.
Below is the full by the Mahama Campaign
Mahama Campaign warns NPP against raising the political temperature.
The Mahama 2024 Campaign has become aware of the Chief Executive of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA)’s action earlier today, pulling down a billboard of HE John Dramani Mahama, mounted by Alliance Media in Tema.
This act is unacceptable and constitutes a needless provocative attempt to raise the political temperature in the country.
Alliance Media, a legally registered Ghanaian advertising business, has the rightful permission to mount Out-of-Home (OOH) and Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) sites nationwide. They diligently pay the required annual fees to the TMA and other assemblies.
Therefore, it is utterly unacceptable for the TMA chief executive to tear down their legally placed billboard, which the Mahama Campaign rented and paid for.
While we expect Alliance Media to take legal action against the TMA for this act, we want to warn the TMA boss and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that such needless acts, which lead to deliberate political clashes and violence, are detrimental to the growth of our democracy.
We have noted a similar act in the Ablekuma North constituency, where the NPP blocked a billboard mounted by the NDC parliamentary candidate. And despite the NPP’s unwarranted provocation in various parts of the country, we note that institutions like the National Peace Council and religious and civil society organizations are watching.
The Mahama Campaign wishes to caution that such acts will no longer be tolerated. If they persist, we will be compelled to instruct our members to take necessary measures to prevent such acts across the country.
We urge the NPP to campaign peacefully and respect the rights of others to advertise their political candidates and messages. Violence and destruction of property have no place in our political discourse.
As President Mahama noted in an opinion piece on Tuesday, there must be “peace and decorum in our political discourse, especially in the run-up to high-stakes elections such as those we face in December this year.”
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM
