Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has strongly criticised Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the running mate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), for comments made about the late President John Evans Atta Mills.
In a recent video, Dr. Opoku Prempeh, known as NAPO, referred to President Mills as “the one who died,” seemingly forgetting his name.
This incident follows a previous controversy where Dr. Prempeh, during his unveiling, placed President Akufo-Addo above President Kwame Nkrumah and made comments about Dr. Nkrumah that were widely considered disrespectful. Dr. Prempeh later issued an apology for those remarks.
Addressing the issue at a community engagement in the Akatsi North of the Volta Region, Mr Mahama condemned Dr Prempeh’s latest comments as both uncalled for and disrespectful to the memory of President Mills.
“He can’t hide his arrogance. I was just watching a video yesterday, and he was talking about the past president. He said Rawlings, and he said Kufuor, and somehow he even forgot Professor Mills’ name, and then he said, “That one who died”.
“I mean, how can you talk like this? Very disrespectful, very insulting. Arrogance is like pregnancy. Whatever you do, it will come out,” he said.
“You can insult me because I can respond because I am life, but in our tradition, you don’t say evil things about the dead. You don’t disrespect the dead because they are not alive to respond to you,” the former president added.