The Mahama 2024 Campaign has asked the New Patriotic Party (NPP)to stop destroying the billboards of its presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama or parliamentary candidates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
A statement issued by the campaign team said they will not tolerate such practices.
The team said it had become aware of the Chief Executive of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) pulling down a billboard of Mr 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.
“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 organisations are watching,” they added.
“If they persist, we will be compelled to instruct our members to take necessary measures to prevent such acts across the country.”
“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’,” the Mahama 2024 Campaign further stated.
Below is the full statement
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
