Speaking on Woezor TV on Saturday, 3 August 2024, the MP apologised to the angered adolescence who afterwards went on a rampage

"Even yesterday, John Dramani Mahama could not drive through the town. If you noticed, we had to bypass the boondocks because abounding of the adolescence capital to chase him on the tour, and he could not drive through the boondocks with them for abhorrence that annihilation could appear to anybody," he explained

Ayariga added abundant that the aegis bearings was not promising, and they did not appetite to activate any incidents

"The aforementioned way my uncle had difficulties accessory the assemblage and so they accepted that John Dramani Mahama should appear to them and yet the aegis bearings was not promising, and everybody was growing algid feet. We didn't appetite to activate annihilation and so back we absitively not to canyon through the town, you noticed that bygone they were actual bitter, and posters of abundance and John Mahama were actuality burnt. It was because of the aegis bearings and the actuality that aegis experts brash us not to booty the risk. It is aching and it hurts," he emphasised

His comments came afterwards videos went viral assuming NDC adolescence in Natinga afire affair paraphernalia, including posters of the aldermanic applicant and the presidential candidate. Sources adumbrated that the adolescence were affronted with the disability of the NDC flagbearer to appointment the abode of the Chief of Bawku and added acceptable leaders

John Dramani Mahama Pulse Ghana Apologising for this oversight, Ayariga additionally mentioned that the associates had to accord with time constraints and added assured the adolescence that Mr Mahama would appointment the boondocks during his attack beyond the country

"We had done four stops alike admitting we were allocated two and had far exceeded the time allotted to Bawku," he added

"We acknowledge the adulation for the affair and admiration to host the flagbearer. I ambition to assure them that this is aloof the alpha of the campaign. The flagbearer, H.E. John Dramani Mahama, will absolutely appointment Natinga in due course," he concluded

The Bawku breadth has been bedeviled by a alternating chieftaincy dispute, apparent by agitated clashes that accept claimed hundreds of lives over the years. The battle has additionally resulted in the abolition of backdrop account millions of Ghanaian cedis. The amount of the altercation revolves about the applicable buying of the Bawku skin, accepted as na'am. As of April 2024, the abandon had led to 10 added deaths and the abeyance of four bounded radio stations