Let the dead goat remain dead - NAPO jabs Mahama

The running mate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh(NAPO) has taken a swipe at the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama at a campaign rally in the Ashanti Region.

Speaking at a campaign rally in Kumasi on August 16, 2024, NAPO urged Ghanaians not to vote for former President Mahama and rehashed Mahama's "the dead goat syndrome" statements, stating Ghanaians should "let the dead goat remain dead."

“In 2016, someone wanted to be president, he said if you don’t have money don’t go to school, those in school should also pay for water and electricity. If you complete school and get a job, you will be paid for only three months after working for three years.

“The allowance of those going to teacher and nursing training colleges was also cancelled. He told Ghanaians looking for jobs that he was not a magician. and because you are charging your mobile phone too much, he won’t give you light,” he said in Twi.

"What even killed us was that he said he was a dead goat. Have you ever seen a dead goat resurrected? If someone says he is a dead goat, are we the ones to resurrect him? Let the dead goat remain dead," he added.

Background to Mahama's "dead goat syndrome" comment

Prior to the  2016 elections, then-President Mahama declared that he would not be intimidated by the possibility of labour union strikes.

He claimed that many presidents allow themselves to be rattled by labor unions, which just wish to use election years with varied demands.

“Often what happens is that in election years, trade unions and everybody see that the government is in a vulnerable place, and so that is when demonstrations, agitations for an increase in pay, and all that begins to happen.

“I have seen more demonstrations and strikes in my first two years. I don’t think it can get worse. It is said that when you kill a goat and frighten it with a knife, it doesn’t fear the knife because it is dead already.

“I have dead goat syndrome,” he said on March 11, 2015, wwhile addressing some members of the Ghanaian community in Botswana.

Source: Lead News Online