The youth of Chorkor have defended the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), following criticism of his 'they would digitalise the kenkey' comment.
According to the Ga youth, the NDC flagbearer's comment was not a denigration of the Ga people in any shape or form and was only pointing to the hardship Ghanaians are facing under the current Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government.
The youth, at a press briefing in Chorkor, on October 23, 2024, said that the comments made by the former president are deliberately being misconstrued by elements of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) just to tarnish his image.
They claimed that all the people who held a press conference demanding an apology from the former president over his comments are NPP members who want to score political points. "We stand united in grief and disappointment, to address a trending ill-motivated political presser by a well-known group of NPP youth of Chorkor, who in an attempt to scam the intellect of the good people of Ghana, chose to hide under the cover of 'Ga/Dangme Youth of Chorkor' to demand that within a week, the flagbearer of NDC and former President of Ghana, HE John Dramani Mahama, retract a statement of fact in the campaign message he delivered during his rally in the Ablekuma West constituency (not Ablekuma South as they erroneously claimed). "Members of the press, by this (our) presser, we wish to state emphatically that, that ill and politically motivated 'Meet the Press' showcases nothing but a deliberate attempt to call for attention to their failed campaign, especially in the Ablekuma South Constituency and also, is a testament of the fact that they are suffering from an 'English Grammar Comprehension Deficiency Syndrome'.