{"id":16856,"date":"2020-08-09T13:11:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T13:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=16856"},"modified":"2020-08-09T13:11:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T13:11:03","slug":"voltarians-dont-vote-for-ndc-because-of-rawlings-kwesi-pratt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=16856","title":{"rendered":"Voltarians don\u2019t vote for NDC because of Rawlings \u2013 Kwesi Pratt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Veteran Journalist, Kwesi Pratt says the perception that the Volta Region votes massively for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) because of former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings is untrue.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, such perception being created in the minds of people should be discarded because the people of Volta Region have a mind of their own and will not lean towards one person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsgh.com\/any-journalist-who-doesnt-support-positivity-will-be-chased-out-of-cape-coast-kahpun-warns\/\">\u00a0Journalist<\/a>\u00a0was speaking on Accra-based Pan African Television monitored by\u00a0MyNews\u00a0when he made this known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kwesi Pratt noted that over the year, the Volta Region has been insulted by people who claim they vote for the NDC because Rawlings is from the Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis attempt to insult the people of the Volta Region should stop. Do you know how we insult the people of the Volta Region? We insult the people of the Volta Region by claiming that they don\u2019t know their destiny, they don\u2019t know themselves and that they\u2019ve supported the government because of one person. That\u2019s an insult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The veteran Journalist recalled that \u201cKwame Nkrumah is not from the Volta Region, the Volta Region stood by Kwame Nkrumah through thick and thin. Check the history, check the electoral records. He was not an Ewe and he did not come from the region. Why the Volta region in the 1969 election when the CPP was banned the Volta Region voted massively enbloc for the National Alliance of Liberals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added \u201cThe Volta Region has voted for the NDC throughout so there must be a reason other than Rawlings. So, it\u2019s not true that Volta Region votes for a party because of Rawlings. Rawlings was not part of the CPP, he was not part of the National Alliance of Liberals. So, it\u2019s not true, the people of the Volta Region, they know themselves, they know their aspirations, they know their needs. Don\u2019t treat the people of the Volta Region as if they are herds of cattle. If you go and you refer to them as inward-looking people do you expect them to vote for you?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further explained that \u201cWhen Busia became President, he made the head of the secessionist movement Ghana\u2019s Ambassador to Togo and that\u2019s why the NPP is unpopular in the Volta Region and not because the people in the Volta Region vote for the NDC because of Rawlings\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:\u00a0MyNewsGh.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Journalist, Kwesi Pratt says the perception that the Volta Region votes massively for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) because of former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings is untrue. 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