Mustapha Salam
The National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mustapha Salam, has reacted angrily to a social media post with a religious slant and attributed to him.
The post, which is part of a series originating from the National Democratic Congress (NDC), seeks to enhance the religious campaign of the opposition party following the victory of Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia at the recent NPP flagbearer primaries.
The fabrication which hit social media yesterday sought to present the Youth Organiser, a national officer of the NPP, as a religious bigot.
We would not repeat the inappropriate words but suffice it to state that many who saw it confined them to the garbage bin as they did previous ones and attributed to the Vice President.
So frequent were the fabrications that the Vice President in a humorous reaction said the NDC were releasing one lie a day.
Speaking to DAILY GUIDE after a similar denial earlier on Peace FM, he said such mendacious fabrication could only come from “the pit of hell”.
“I have not granted any interview since Saturday (during the declaration of Dr. Bawumia as flagbearer at the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium),” he said as he condemned the motive behind the quotation attributed to him by actors from the other side of the political aisle in the country.
This, he said, is an equalisation campaign by the NDC following the nasty things uttered by Sam George, the Ningo-Prampram MP when Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia was elected as flagbearer of the NPP.
The Youth Organiser added that, “I am too measured to say what was attributed to me.”
Countless denials have been issued from the actors in the NPP, a party whose leaders have become victims of a heightened smear campaign from the opposition NDC hate speech minting centre.
Since Sam George spewed unprintable words against members of the Islamic faith, he has not been rebuked by the leadership of the NDC. He has also refused to express remorse for the inappropriate language.
By A.R. Gomda