{"id":8159,"date":"2024-09-17T09:28:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T09:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=8159"},"modified":"2024-09-17T09:28:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T09:28:43","slug":"insults-and-verbal-attacks-wont-win-you-votes-bawumia-tells-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=8159","title":{"rendered":"Insults and verbal attacks won\u2019t win you votes \u2013 Bawumia tells Mahama."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has told his counterpart of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama to conduct his campaign devoid of insults and verbal attacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Bawumia expresses the view that insults and verbal attacks will not win Mr Mahama any votes in the upcoming elections. They only show that Mr Mahama has no ideas to express, Dr Bawumia added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His comments come on the heels of a recent critique of the clergy, traditional leaders, and civil society organizations (CSOs), by Mr Mahama, accusing them of failing to hold the NPP government accountable for its governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking during his campaign tour of the Greater Accra Region, Dr. Bawumia expressed disappointment in Mahama\u2019s statements, suggesting that the former President\u2019s words reflect frustration over the possibility of losing the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-d7cc640efa6319b09f7765e9cd5c21da ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wbKGTsh-3OE?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Mahama had said during a campaign event at the Okaikwei North Constituency on Sunday, September 15 that \u201cWe must come together and tell the government that their time is up. They have underperformed. But you will find some chiefs, pastors, traditional leaders, and Muslim leaders congratulating them for a good job done, telling him (Bawumia) that he has done well. You want to win with this kind of bad governance?\u201d Mahama questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He further accused these groups of hypocrisy, stating, \u201cHypocrisy is what is pulling this nation back. It doesn\u2019t matter who is in office; we must be truthful at all times. These are the things that hinder our development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in a response to hum, Dr Bawumia said \u201cHe\u2019s realized he is about losing miserably, so everything gets him angry. I have heard him insulting the clergy, traditional leaders, Imams, and CSOs. He says they are hypocrites.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added \u201cwe must have at least some standards of decency in the language we speak as politicians. the elections are not about insults, they are about ideas, it is when you have no ideas that you insult people. For us, we have bold solutions&nbsp; to problems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has told his counterpart of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama to conduct his campaign devoid of insults and verbal attacks. Dr Bawumia expresses the view that insults and verbal attacks will not win Mr Mahama any votes in the upcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[1635,1800],"class_list":["post-8159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-john-dramani-mahama-2","tag-dr-bawumia-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8161,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions\/8161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}