The Media General platforms have been treating our presidential candidate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, as well as our party’s communicators and top officials, unfairly. Day in and day out, Media General platforms are being used to unfairly criticize our presidential candidate without any apparent or logical reason.
TV3, Onua TV, and their affiliate radio stations across the country have been used as platforms to undermine our candidate, fabricate stories about him, and tarnish his reputation. The hosts of these stations consistently exhibit intense animosity towards Dr. Bawumia, often insulting him at will. They regularly invent and spread falsehoods about the candidate.
Dr Bawumia has become an object of derision in the eyes of these half-baked radio and television stations and their hosts. They twist issues and embellish stories just to make our candidate look monstrous in the eyes of the Ghanaian populace. Our communicators are always outnumbered on all the political programs on Media General’s platforms. On some occasions, we would see one NPP representative and four NDC-aligned panelists with the hosts supporting the versions articulated by the NDC’s reps.
Onua TV is just an outfit created to heap all manner of invectives on Dr. Bawumia and our party’s top guns. Ministers are constantly subjected to verbal abuse by the host of the show. On TV3’s Key Points show, more often than not, there is one NPP rep and five NDC representatives camouflaged by the use of pro-NDC lecturers and analysts who appear on the show.
General, I need not point out that this is a grand agenda by the owners and management of Media General to give John Mahama an undue advantage as we approach the 2024 elections. Putting it simply, Media General has become a propaganda outfit for the NDC. It is a pro-Mahama entity and must be left to remain so by not sending our communicators to their platforms.
Sir, our communicators do not need to dwell amongst such fiendish elements and scavengers in order to promote the works of our government and the vision of our presidential candidate, Dr Bawumia. Such toxic environments have no room for reasonable and sound arguments and articulation of our policies. Kindly, withdraw our communicators.
We should sever ties with Media General. It is bent on undermining our efforts whilst promoting the incompetent one, John Dramani Mahama. There are equally good media houses and better television and radio stations where we can sell our candidate, promote his vision, and tell Ghanaians our story.
We are the New Patriotic Party, if we were able to survive in the dark days of our democracy, we shall smoothly triumph in the face of these deliberate efforts by Media General in cahoots with the NDC to dwarf us onto the sidelines. What is the essence of patronizing a media outlet and its affiliates when all they do is to go to great lengths and trouble to make us look bad in the eyes of the public? Let us boycott their programs!
Thank you.
The writer is P. K. Sarpong, Whispers from the Corridors of the Thinking Place.
