Former president and current flagbearer for the largest opposition party NDC, John Dramani Mahama has maintained that he lost the presidential race in 2016 due to the dirty tactics the NPP employed on the various social media platforms.
Granting an exclusive interview with Joy News’ Emefa, John Mahama averred that the NPP had used the power of social media to spin lies and propaganda against his government, thus creating a negative perception in the minds of Ghanaians about his administration.
…Sometimes in politics you have these upsets and it is based on a certain reality, a perceived reality. In 2016, social media was coming into its own, we had recognized the benefits but we didn’t know it would be used as a campaign tool. And the NPP used it very effectively to really create the perception – exaggerated – of our administration that the economy was in a big mess…
They used a lot of propaganda on social media to tar us with the brush of corruption, incompetence, and telling a lot of tales that I was the owner of DKM. Today you see a picture and the owner of DKM is walking with the Interior Minister very comfortably in an NPP T-shirt, but they made people believe that Lordina and I owned DKM and that we brought it to fleece the people of Brong Ahafo and the places where DKM operated.
They said that I had a hotel in Dubai, I challenged them recently, I said ‘look, lets’ go and then find the hotel. We can sell it if it’s mine and bring the money to help the economy’. They didn’t take up the challenge. There has been a loud silence.
They said I have ships in Tokyo harbor. Myself and Lordina diverted 300 million dollars World Bank money to a Swiss account, I had impregnated my housemaid, I mean it was just… they had troll factories that were just manufacturing these stories.
And the mistake we made was we said ‘O but Ghanaians will know this is not true’ and so we didn’t really come out to defend and explain so we just left it. And you’d assume that these are things people will realise that they’re not true but you know somehow perception is larger than reality so
Source: Gossips24.com
