DR. CALLISTUS MAHAMA HAS NO FAMILIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH H.E PRESIDENT JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA

 By Issifu Seidu Kudus Gbeadese 

(Youth Imam from Laribanga)

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The 2024 general elections are over, and the rejected stone (President Mahama) has become the corner stone. He has won with a landslide victory. Ghanaians today feel as though we have just had our second independence.

Just when we thought the agenda-setters who found not their voices in the last 8 years, have been baptized by the worsened economic condition under President Akuffo-Addo, they have just woken up and have found their voices again. 

They have started building their stock of conspiracy theories meant to put clogs on the way of H.E John Dramani Mahama beggining with the astute Dr. Callistus Mahama. This time, they are trying to net out the negative effect of the extreme nepotistic conducts of President Akuffo-Addo, by playing a game of equalization.

As expected of a desperate group who went deaf and dumb in the wake of the visible practice of family and friends under the Nana Addo’s administration, they are accusing President Mahama of jetting off with family and friends administration. This time around, their shots have been directed at the venerable Dr. Callistus Mahama—claiming that the latter is a family member of the Mahama’s by dint of the fact that he bears the same surname as the Mahama’s.

This is the weakest claim ever made by the so-called elites who saw nothing wrong with Gyankroma Akuffo-Addo’s appointment to the Creative Arts Board. How could anybody assume that because a Gonja has Mahama as his surname, it automatically makes the person a family member of President Mahama? Has the name Mahama been customized by President John Mahama and his family? 

For the records, President Mahama and Dr. Callistus Mahama are from the extreme ends of Gonjaland—the former from the Western part of Gonja (Bole-Damongo) while the latter is from the Eastern Part of Gonjaland (Kafaba). So, the conversation of family and friends cannot fester on such a weak ground. 

Let’s put this in proper context—yes, Dr. Callistus is a Gonja just as President Mahama but not a family member. Yes, a Gonja from any part of Gonjaland is a brother to another Gonja, but within the context of what has come to stay as political jargon in Ghana as “family and friend’s government”, Dr. Callistus and President Mahama relationship doesn’t fit in such a description. 

Let’s even roll back into recent history. After President Akuffo-Addo assumed office in 2017, and the subsequent appointment of his family members including his own biological daughter, baby Mamas and direct cousins into very sensitive positions, we were told that those family members were qualified and that their qualifications should be the only standard measure and not their close relationship with President Akuffo -Addo.

 Even when Ken Ofori Atta fell short of his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Yale  University and a Wall Street Banker, by plunging Ghana’s economy into a junk status, we were still told that he was such a successful investment banker and so we should overlook his incompetence and poor performance and suffer the by-products of his unbridled borrowing for consumption. 

Assuming without admitting that Dr. Callistus Mahama were a family member of President Mahama and same rod is to be used to measure the direction of the above proposition, won’t Dr. Callistus qualify to occupy any position in government? In any case, what is the noise about? Just appointed to serve as the secretary to the Transition Team and the so called centre-neutrals can’t take a nap? 

Before he took the appointment as the Head of the Local Government Service under the first regime of H.E John Dramani Mahama, Dr. Callistus Mahama was an accomplished academic with the KNUST Department of Land Economy. Between 2009 and 2013, he served as the Deputy Director and Head of the Accra Campus of the Institute of Local Government Studies after serving in a similar capacity in the Tamale Campus of the same institute between 2006 and 2009. 

Equally important to note is that Dr. Callistus holds PhD in Land Law and an MPhil in Land Economy both from the University of Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. Indeed, Dr. Callistus is a silent achiever—in St Augustine’s in around 1994, he came out as an outstanding student (best student) in Ghana. These are hidden achievements Dr. Callistus won’t boast about. 

In office as the head of the Local Government Service, Dr Callistus initiated and supervised the current Administrative Decentralization Policy that has seen the effectiveness in local authorities in the performance of their decentralized functions. 

Dr. Callistus is a disciplined administrator whose sterling reputation and hard work earned him the current position as one of the closest aide in the office of H.E John Dramani since the latter became Former President in 2017. So, if competence, academic qualification, integrity, honesty and dedication to duty were just the standard measure for anybody to occupy any position, why should anybody question Dr. Callistus Mahama’s appointment? 

Let me even beg to ask, between Dr. Callistus who has expanded expertise and experience in public life and Ken Ofori Atta who was only a private investment banker with leading demonstrations and processions as the only experience in the public life, who should be appointed to occupy very sensitive public office? 

Let this caution be thrown to the smear-campaigners and agenda-setters that not even their propaganda pulpits can pull down the towers of reputation built by Dr. Callistus. And if they try to get his name smeared as they did to President Mahama in his first regime, they should get ready to face it off with a tinted firewall built by some of us to defend the likes of Dr. Callistus Mahama and President John Dramani Mahama. 

If these so called neutrals and patriots kept quiet and never spoke against the nepotism practiced in it’s worse form under Nana Akuffo-Addo, why should they have a problem with Dr. Callistus Mahama even if the latter were a family member of H.E President John Mahama? Dr. Callistus is here to stay, and so, I will humbly request them to brace themselves for his presence in H.E John Mahama’s administration. 

Shalom!!!

SAVANNAH REGIONAL YOUTH WORKING COMMITTEE OF THE NDC CONGRATULATES DR. CALLISTUS MAHAMA ON HIS APPOINTMENT

Under the able Chairmanship of Hon Yusif Sulemana Ori, MP for Bole-Bamboi Constituency, the regional youth working committee of the NDC wishes to congratulate you, Dr. Callistus Mahama, for your appointment as the secretary to the Transition Team. 

The youth working committee of the Savannah Region acknowledges and appreciates the massive support and guidance from you, Dr. Callistus Mahama over this period. It is our honest believe that with you in this team, the interest of President Mahama, his incoming government and the NDC and Ghana at large will be protected. We believe in your competence, integrity and an eye for details. 

Your appointment comes as no surprise since your service and loyalty to President Mahama and the NDC has paid off greatly. The team will always render its support to you at all times to ensure a successful administration. 

The Chairman of the Committee, Hon Yusif Sulemana Ori, the Regional Youth Organizer, Alhaji Inusah Mahama and the entire members of the committee wish you the best as you start work today, Wednesday, 11th December, 2024. 

Thank you 

Signed

Alhaji Inusah Mahama

(NDC Regional Youth Organizer—SR)

 

YAGBONWURA RECITES THE QURAN FOR VICTORY FOR H.E JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA AHEAD OF THE 7TH DECEMBER, 2024 GENERAL ELECTIONS.

The Yagbonwura, flanged by all the divisional chiefs of the Gonja Kingdom, has caused for the recitation of the Quran to solicit the blessings and victory for his son, H.E John Dramani Mahama in the upcoming 2024 general elections. 

In fulfillment of his promise, H.E John Dramani Mahama has built a modern Jakpa Palace for the King and overlord of the Gonja Kingdom. During the sod cutting ceremony, H.E John Dramani Mahama pledged that the project will be completed and commissioned before the end of the year, 2024. 

Today, 6th December has been scheduled for the commissioning of the Palace project. Before the commissioning, the Yagbonwura caused for the recitation of the Quran in prayer for H.E John Mahama’s victory in the upcoming general elections. All the paramount and sub chiefs of the land demonstrated their loyalty and love for H.E John Dramani Mahama and prayed for his victory.

Filed by Kudus Gbeadese

THE YOUTH SHALL TAKE CHARGE OF THE NEXT NDC ADMINISTRATION—ALHAJI INUSAH MAHAMA

 The Savannah Regional Youth Organizer of the NDC, Alhaji Inusah Mahama has charged the youth in the region to take full control of the last days of the 2024 campaigns to ensure a resounding victory for H.E John Mahama and the 7 NDC Parliamentary Candidates for the Savannah Region. Addressing the youth groups in the region during the campaign tour of the region by the Regional Youth Working Committee, Alhaji Inusah tasked the youth to see the NDC as the better alternative to the failed Nana Addo/Bawumia NPP administration.

At Jonokponto community in the Damongo Constituency, the youth organizer recounted the youth-centered policies of the NDC including the 24hour Economy, the 1million jobs fr youth in coding, the youth apprenticeship program, the mechanization of agric through the farmer service centers and a host of others. He indicated that all these policies are targeted at creating well-paying and sustainable jobs for the youth to reduce the unemployment rate which has show up to about 15% under the NPP administration. 

The youth organizer made a bold statement that the next John Mahama/NDC administration is going to be youth-centered government with much focus on job creation. 

Alhaji Inusah reiterated the commitment of the NDC to protecting the votes of Ghanaians in the upcoming elections, indicating that the NDC has a superior system to ensure that the NPP and the Jean Mensah led EC do not rig and steal the verdict from the NDC again. He therefore charged the youth to join hands with the NDC to monitor and create an effective response mechanism for the purposes of protecting the ballots during the election. He said the NDC remains the future of the youth of Ghana.

The team, led by the Chairman of the Youth Working Committee, Hon Yusif Sulemana Ori is whipping the enthusiasm of the youth front across all the 7 constituencies in the Savannah Region. 

Filed by:

Kudus Gbeadese 

(Communication Director—Regional Youth Wing)

NPP IS SYNONYMOUS TO DECEPTION—MP FOR BOLE-BAMBOI

The Chairman of the Youth Working Committee of the NDC in the Savannah Region, and the MP for Bole-Bamboi Constituency, Hon. Yussif Sulemana Ori has described the NPP as a party that has mastered the art of deception in every sphere of politics. Addressing the constituents of the Daboya-Mankarigu in Daboya township, Hon. YUSSIF recounted the numerous failed promises made by the NPP to the people of the constituency. 

The MP reminded the constituents that unlike H.E John Dramani Mahama, the NPP has chosen to engage in lies and peddling falsehoods aimed at hoodwinking the people. He counted the number of projects the NPP promised the people of Daboya but need fulfilled. Amongst them are the agenda 111 hospital which has since been left unattended to and left to the mercy of stubborn rodents. Hon. Ori also referred the constituents to the promise made by the Vice President of Ghana, Dr Mahmoud Bawumia to construct a bridge over the Daboya River which has since not been fulfilled. 

On abandoned projects, Hon Ori indicated that the Busunu-Daboya road project which was started by H.E John Mahama has been left to rot, posing a danger to motorists especially during the rainy season. He used rhe opportunity to inform the people of Daboya that one of the priority projects of H.E John Mahama for the people of the Daboya-Mankarigu Constituency will be the road. He said that the road will be first completed and other abandoned projects like the hospital before new projects will be started. 

He also recounted the other projects that H.E John Mahama and the NDC executed for the people of Daboya, and these include the Daboya Community Day SHS. But for that SHS, most of the students in that area will have access secondary education outside of the constituency which will add to the cost of secondary education to parents. 

Hon. Yussif Sulemana Ori urged the people to vote massively for H.E John Mahama and Hon.  Lawyer Mahama Shaibu Obei for effective leadership and sustainable development. To the youth, the MP explained the job creation component of the 24hour economy and assured them of their share in the next NDC administration. 

The Youth working committee through the chairman donated 500 branded T-shirts to the PC for Daboya-Mankarigu and other cash donation to the motor riders as other selected groups. 

Filed by:

Kudus Gbeadese 

(Director of Communication—SR Youth Wing)

JOHN MAHAMA WILL ENSURE EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF THE NATIOAL CAKE—HON YUSSIF ORI

 

As part of the campaign tour of the Savannah Regional Youth Wing's campaign tour in the Daboya--Mankarigu Constituency in the Savannah Region, the chairman of the Youth Working Committee in the region, Hon Yussif Sulemana Ori, reiterated the commitment of H.E John Dramani Mahama's commitment at ensuring that all Ghanaians will be considered in the sharing of the national cake without aany room a select few to be catered for at the expense of the majority of Ghanaians. Hon. Yussif was addressing voters in the Mankarigu community as part of the 8-day campaign tour of the Savannah Region. 

Hon. Yussif Ori assured the people that irrespective of their ethnic group, religious affiliation or political persuasion, everyone will be a part of the John Mahama's. He indicated that the Tampulma's and the Gonjas are brothers, and that due to the intermarriages between the two ethnic groups, citing Lawyer Shaibu Obei's mother who herself is a Tampulma, we have become one and the same people. He said unlike the NPP, the NDC is not discriminatory and will not resort to whipping ethnic sentiments just to score political points and for electoral victory. 

Hon. Yussif Sulemana called on the people to go out in their numbers and vote massively for H.E John Dramani Mahama and Hon. Mahama Shaibu Obei for a sustainable development of the constituency. He cautioned against voting "skirt and blouse", indicating that H.E John Dramani Mahama will require a convincing majority to enable him to implement his life-changing policies. 

The youth working committee has been engaging and educating voters in four communities in the Daboya-Mankarigu Constituency.

Filed by:

Kudus Gbeadese

NPP FINANCIER IN THE DABOYA-MANKARIGU CONSTITUENCY DEFECTS TO THE NDC

One of the influential figures in the NPP in the Daboya-Mankarigu Constituency, Iddrisu Mufti has defected to the NDC. Mr. Mufti was, on the 13th of November, temporarily introduced to the Savannah Regional Youth Working Committee Chairman, Hon Yussif Sulemana Ori in a short ceremony in Daboya. 

A businessman in the Daboya community who has been a sustained financier of the NPP in the constituency has indicated his disappointment of the NPP government and their leadership in the Daboya-Mankarigu Constituency over the last few years. Mr Mufti lamented that due to the economic hardships, businesses are collapsing and impacting negatively on the living conditions of the people. 

Hon Yussif Sulemana Ori received Mr Mufti on behalf of Hon. Lawyer Mahama Shaibu Obei, the Parliamentary Candidate for the Constituency. In his turn, Hon. Yussif Ori commended Mr Mufti for his bold decision to come home to a party that cares for the people and businessmen. Hon Ori assured Mr Mufti of the NDC’S commitment at protecting him and offering a better alternative to the NPP. 

Mr Mufti has since join the Regional Youth Working Committee to tour the Constituency at Yagbon, Mankarigu and Lingbinsi communities. He assured the NDC of his full support. Hon Ori donated John Mahama’s branded T-shirt to Mr Mufti.

Filed by:

Kudus Gbeadese 

(Communication Director--SR Youth Wing)