The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has said in an interview on Starr FM that he is not going to use celebrities in his campaign this year.
According to him, such practice affects the careers of celebrities because Ghanaians have not grown to understand that culture.
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“In this political campaign I have tried to discourage, as much as possible, getting celebrities involved in our campaign because it leads to distraction of their careers and so if you noticed I haven’t gone around with celebrities, musicians and so forth because our politics does not support some of those things,” he said.
He added that he has no problem with Samini and Sarkodie endorsing Nana Addo and that he still admires their craftS irrespective of their political affiliations.
Last year, the former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and now Chief Executive Officer of the Atta Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho blamed the party’s defeat partly on the legions of celebrities that mounted platforms to campaign for them.
“…we enjoy their music and movies but never again should we hand over NDC’s campaign to celebrities.”
“On the 2016 campaign message, he wondered “what message did we use to campaign, was it a strong message?”
He asked, “which people led the campaign in 2016, are we going to use the same tactics while we have cadres, party executives, national executives, yet the campaign was run by people who had no understanding of the party’s philosophy and history?”
He urged that “if they want to be part of the party, they should go and join the branches.”
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By: ghanaweekend.com
