Majority Leader, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has described George Boateng who is seeking to contest President John Dramani Mahama for the flagbearer slot
of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as a joke
’ seeking to offer the nation a ‘comic relief’. The Nadowli/Kaleo Member of Parliament (MP) speaking on Asempa FM Friday said his description was apt as the former branch youth organizer of the party was joking with Ghanaians. “I think that what George Boateng is doing is a complete comic relief…when you lie with you face facing down, I don’t see how you can see the stars, I don’t see how someone from the branch level would want to lead Ghana…,” he said.
George Boateng has come under series of criticisms for daring to challenge President Mahama at the November 7th, 2015 primaries of the NDC. NDC scribe, Johnson Asiedu Nketia described him as “someone in need of psychiatric help”, a point which was backed by a deputy communication director, Solomon Nkansah. George Boateng in a reply said the NDC scribe was once a psychiatric patient who helped convey to asylum some time in 1998. These and other comments including the promise by him that he would legalise the cultivation of marijuana when he gets the chance to lead the party and become President of the republic, Bagbin said points to the fact that George Boateng is never a serious politician.
“If someone decides to contest, we would encourage him but not the caliber of George Boateng…he is taken Ghanaians for a ride…he is just a joke, not only a joke but a small joke…,” he said.
On the sacking of clerks at the party office in Adabraka who released party forms to George Boateng, the NDC MP said the party was right as they were following laid down rules and regulations.
