In a move to campaign against the Ghanaian actor who is contesting on the ticket of National Democratic Congress as a parliamentary candidate, the Ghanaian musician, Edwin Kwame Ohene Darko, popularly known as Pope Skinny, took to social media to send a strong-worded message to the electorates of Ayawaso West Wuogon.
According to Pope Skinny in a tweet he shared, John Dumelo just wants to make money from politics because he has nothing to offer his constituents, therefore, Ghanaians should not vote for him.
His tweet reads, “Ghana please don’t vote for this man. He is just an idiot who wants to make money and make a statement. He has nothing to offer his constituency. Am not saying this because of NDC or NPP. Am saying this because of his sayings. Stomach politicians”.
However, the tweet which gathered over three hundred retweets and more than two hundred replies was met with a backlash as most tweets criticized him over his foul language and choice of words.
A Twitter user, @swatzclothing wrote “Omg how did this clown get a Twitter verification?” and another with the handle @_1mouse said, “comot for der, u always dey envy people wey wan do things u can’t do. @shattawalegh make we know you long time”.
Others, however, supported Pope Skinny’s expression, nevertheless, he has issued an apology for his choice of words but reiterated his message that the electorates must not vote for John Dumelo.
He wrote “sorry for being hush on John Dumelo. I shouldn’t have insulted him. Am deeply sorry. Let me rephrase what I said. PLEASE DNT VOTE FOR JOHN DUMELO”.
Ghana heads to the polls and the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency has turned out to be one of the constituencies in Ghana which is attracting wild attention following developments relating to what looks like a fierce competition between the actor and incumbent MP, Lydia Seyram Alhassan.
In recent times, some colleague actors were found campaigning against John Dumelo and this raised a lot of backlash from the public and even some actors, to the actors that were campaigning.
The likes of Prince David Osei, Kalybos, Bismark The Joke, Cwesi Oteng, Bibi Bright, Jessica Williams, and others were heavily chastised after they campaigned in favor of the Incumbent MP against their colleague John Dumelo who is also vying for the same position but under the NDC party. TV presenter Bridget Otoo even described their actions as a daft move. Some people from the NPP party could not stand it and spoke on behalf of the actors.
The Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Maame Afia Akoto, jumped on critics of the public figures who campaigned for Madam Lydia Seyram Alhassan at the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency.
Reacting to this, Maame Afia Akoto in a post on Instagram stated that the critics of these public figures have the weakest understanding of democracy.
She gave an instance of which the Vice President, Dr. Mahamdu Bawumia campaigned against his brother-in-law, Ramadan Adamu Muhammed at Adenta.
That notwithstanding, this development made some friends of John Dumelo explicitly come out to support him after a long time.
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