'I'm prepared to take the risks Nkrumah took' - President Mahama declares

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  • Ho Airport is Useless 1 day ago

    You were elected by Ghanaians to deal primarily with Ghana's problems like galamsey, unemployment and dumsor. Finish deaqling with local problems first. You were not elected to go glob-rotting to promote African Unity.

  • Kay 1 day ago

    President John Mahama is a senseless braggart. He has failed miserably on his core mandate and is gallivanting around the world pretending he's working. Vladimir Putin Govt itself do not regard him. No top Russian Govt Offici ...
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  • Afoko 1 day ago

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  • FRANKIE 1 day ago

    That was a bold and beautiful proclamation by Osagyefo John Dramani Mahama. With such a mindset, Africa shall be free one day. BRAVO!

  • Kay 1 day ago

    Shut Up There with your Stupidity. Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah never had an Artificial Billionaire brother. Same with Lenin & Stalin of Russian Revolution, none of them left behind any property for their family members.

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  • Karikakchar 1 day ago

    It’s great to make PanAfricanist remarks but, JM has less the 30 months to go so what risk can he take?

  • Louis Appiah 1 day ago

    Mahama the Empty Braggart, stop this unholy alliance.

    Nkrumah's visions never included:
    1. Fake 24-hour economy mantra
    2. Nkokɔ Nketenkete
    3. Paying people like Kelvin Taylor to insult others
    4. Giving national asse ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 19 hours ago

    African Unity was a Program that Nkrumah should not have involved the economy of Ghana too much into. Why was he extravagantly spending the wealth of Ghana into it. He should not have done that and I don't expect Mahama to do ...
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  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 15 hours ago

    Is this man going to declare a one party state.

  • Afoko 1 day ago

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  • Karikakchar 1 day ago

    Not much difference between the people you’re insulting and yourself, if you’re not ..,

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  • Ugly disturbance 1 day ago

    How do u earn by doing this difficult job? Sad

  • Akofu Addo 1 day ago

    If you carefully read the comments from the Nkwasiafo) People's Party supporters then you'll understand why Ken said the NPP is a Party of fools. In fact there's not a single sensible person in the NPP right from the flag bea ...
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  • they say they say 23 hours ago

    Eventually npp party with its garbage will be extinct in Ghana. It's already in process.

  • Yourabusebackontoyouindroves 1 day ago

    A fool like you will not know failure if you see one. Mahama is doing very well- your sheer hate can’t change that.

  • Gonja Mafia 1 day ago

    Only fools like you would believe in the useless president John Airbus Mahama, the cocaine president. He only talks without thinking about what he says. Is it not worrisome to say that he was going to make boreholes in every ...
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  • TT 1 day ago

    More than Akuffo Addo? Who said they weren't going to IMF but ended up there? Who promised God a cathedral but failed to deliver? You do not need to fear when an African leader says the uncomfortable to the West.

  • God will elevate Nigeria 23 hours ago

    God bless President John because he has a golden heart.

  • mr amin 1 day ago

    De wu fie asem

  • Yourabusebackontoyouindroves 1 day ago

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  • Lol 1 day ago

    Masa Masa Masa Masa @ John Mahama, nobody needs your risks, chief ! You are a complete failure!!

  • Clueless? 1 day ago

    Does Mahama have the same time to lead as Nkrumah? This guy is always getting it wrong? Another wasted 4yrs cooking?

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    1. Dr Kwame Nkrumah was arrested and put into PRISON-He sacrificed his life for his country Ghana-Nkrumah-NEVER STOLE-DID NOT BUILD ONE ROOM FOR HIMSELF.
    2. NELSON MANDELA-was arrested and put into prison for 27 years-HE SAC ...
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  • The Spear 1 day ago

    Which risks? It does not make any sense!

    Ghana is very poor, our cities very dirty and reeking with filth and heightened indiscipline and our leader wants to step aside all that to pursue the unachievable continental unity ...
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  • ObuasiMan 1 day ago

    Nkrumah would have eradicated Galamsey.

  • No No 1 day ago

    We need all 54 African leaders to talk like this
    A Good Good leader!!!!

  • Blue Pen 1 day ago

    Talk is cheap. If he really means what he says, he start by condemning the senseless killings of innocent people by jihadists in Northern Nigeria, DR Congo, Mali, etc.

  • Let's be serious 1 day ago

    Another seasoned idiot called blue pen. Anyway, any idiot can hold a pen these days, just a few understand it's use. If you want to appear sensible, begin by talking about the senseless killing of people in Gaza . Religion ha ...
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  • Blue Pen 1 day ago

    @Let's be serious. A stupid, mad dog that thinks we Africans should be more concerned about the lives of trouble making Gaza people (who call Black Africans abeed, meaning slaves) and be less concerned about the lives of inno ...
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  • Nana 1 day ago

    Nkrumah was selfless and never looked for Fake followers. He would've called for State of Emergency to stop Galamsey without looking over his shoulders. If Togbe Afede, Tsatsu Tsikata & Dormaahene can warn you from using GA ...
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  • COMMENT 1 day ago

    MAHAMA HAS MELTED NDC INTO CPP.
    THE TWO MAJOR PARTIES IN GHANA ARE NPP and CPP.

  • Yourabusebackontoyouindroves 1 day ago

    Not when his predecessors increased galamsey licenses like a fool. So much so that their Ashanti regional chairman got imprisoned for it.

  • Kankan nyame 1 day ago

    Fake guy

  • Nii 1 day ago

    Very FAKE indeed.

  • Blue Pen 21 hours ago

    Very fake. Indeed, a wolf in sheep's clothing

  • Yourabusebackontoyouindroves 1 day ago

    Genuine Guy. May God bless the man

  • Pelicles 1 day ago

    John Mahama, you should be told in your face that you want power to have unrelenting sex and nothing else. Look at you, do you think you are a leader? The average Ghanaian does not understand the meaning of voting to elect a ...
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  • MAISON 1 day ago

    Smh and lol. Because of social media village idiots like you and your friends have been given the same voice as Nobel Prize winners!

  • Blue Pen 1 day ago

    Just you @MAISON also get to spew out garbage. And who Nobel Prize winners? They include terrorist bomb makers and terrorist supporters, neo-Nazis, eedyortic neo-liberal liars, etc. The Nobel Prize is just political.

  • Useless Ho Airport 1 day ago

    Mahama cannot even handle galamseyers in Ghana, he thinks he can handle jihadists in Mali and Niger and boko haram in Nigeria.

  • John,Tema 1 day ago

    Vladimir Putin prefers Foreign leaders who can think on their feet like Capt Ibrahim Traore not flip floppy guys like John Mahama. It's the reason why they've formed BRICS to fast track their devt thru Mkt Economy. Putin will ...
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  • Blue Pen 1 day ago

    @John, Tema. You sound like a colonized mind. Our goal should not be to please Putin or Trump or whichever foreign power. But that's very typical of you opposition NPP fanatics - just opposing for opposition sake.

    But of c ...
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  • Yourabusebackontoyouindroves 1 day ago

    Well done Mahama. Keep up the Good works. Let the fools hurt the more

  • COMMENT 1 day ago

    President Mahama has melted NDC into CPP.
    Now the two major parties in Ghana are NPP and CPP.

  • Sam Fante warrior. 22 hours ago

    @Comment. How stupid you're ? So long time you doesn't know CPP is a NDC ? Where do you think uncle Atta Mills from ? All NDC supporters are Kwame Nkrumah boys and girls.

  • Ashie Moore 1 day ago

    Someone should tell Mr. Mahama God gave him several opportunities to serve Ghana, as MP, deputy minister, minister, Vice President, and twice as President, yet he delivers minutely compared to the great Osagyefo. The NDC has ...
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  • Bawumia 1 day ago

    Ashie Moore gyimifo) bi ba. I know you to be very stupid but I never knew your foolishness has reached it climax. Kwasia how can you say that filthy, evil, criminal, corrupt, senseless super incompetent fool was a good presi ...
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  • Let's be serious 1 day ago

    Why the matter enter you like that

  • No No 1 day ago

    Mahama is Good leader
    Ghana and the Continent of Africa needs to support him!!!

  • Lawal 1 day ago

    useless zoogerian, kwaseato

  • No No 1 day ago

    People want to do well for their nation
    These people are people we should follow!!!

  • Esa 1 day ago

    Which risk is that? Mr Mahama youre a shameless man. Have you heard of the Obuasi headmasters rape and defilement? Youre a big disgrace, please dont compare yourself to Kwame Nkrumah. You're a scammer!!!

  • Frank 1 day ago

    With ur 2 yes left, always lier, u r soooooooo lired Mr president

  • Chris Milan 1 day ago

    Look at this good for nothing Prez.You are shielding on the siut of DEMOCRACY to talk such bullshit

  • MAISON 1 day ago

    Apoo. Because of social media village idiots like you and your friends have been given the same voice as Nobel Prize winners!

  • Blessing 1 day ago

    Too late Mr President your time is almost up tanii don't try 3rd time a s destroy our democracy

  • Kojos 1 day ago

    Talk is cheap. You have no vision. Only bread and butter

  • KO 1 day ago

    Odwan funu. Deal with the galamsey and the corruption in your party

  • Nii Hammond 1 day ago

    Mahama, I know know that you are a fool. As a president of a small nation in size like Ghana, you don't brazenly come out to declare your intentions geopolitic, out like that. The respite you have, because of Goldboard is get ...
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  • Bawumia 1 day ago

    Nii woni twasidi wa'te, kwasia your failed filthy useless parents are the fools. Mmoa bi ba

  • KWAME GHANA 1 day ago

    THEN JOHN MAHAMA THEN FOLLOW NKRUMAH'S STEPS PROPERLY. NKRUMAH NEVER REDUCED COCOA PRICES WHEN WORLD COCOA PRICES REACHED ROCK BOTTOM 211 DOLLARS PER TONNE IN 1965. HE INVITED COCOA FARMERS TO THE FLAGSTAFF HOUSE FOR DISCUSSI ...
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  • Dr. SPIDER 1 day ago

    MM! Public arrogance. How many said they would die with Jesus? At the crow of the cock how many were they? Mahama has two years to go away. Even consultations would need more than five years. Before Nkrumah planning so then h ...
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  • Koti 1 day ago

    Just for comedy, I miss Super OD. How many domestic problems have solved; your first term and this term. Just mention one!

  • The Great 1 day ago

    Please don't compare yourself to Kwame Nkrumah. Don't try it. You can't even solve the problems Ghana is facing. You've failed Ghanaians of all the promises you made. You just lied to win political power.

  • Koppong 1 day ago

    Mahama, our towns are nasty with no proper layout, youth have no jobs and your thinking is about colonial idea of Africa
    You are lost

  • COD 1 day ago

    Corrupt President John Mahama should quit making such statements about our One & Only True President Nkrumah.
    President Nkrumah was never corrupt, and was not amassing wealth at the expense of Ghana as you and you brother an ...
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  • Sir please it deal with the Unity in NDC first 1 day ago

    Sir please let’s deal with the unity in NDC first

  • Ghana need strong borders and Police Barriers Because, IGBO's Are Homeless. 1 day ago

    John Dramani Mahama has just forgot his name given to him by Dr. Muhammadu Bawumia. That is the Incompetent And aimless fellow calling himself a leader. That was why he has allowed his Fellow brothers and sisters Biafrans fro ...
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  • Capt Adabuga 1 day ago

    Nkrumah was selfless, are you?

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  • Mesope 1 day ago

    You sir, are no Nkrumah. Let's stay grounded please.

  • Ghen ghen 1 day ago

    Some commentators on the platform have never hold any position in their entire life before not even compound overseer but this are the very people who will talk shit. Mr President ,,,,,we Dey your back Vhim.
    You can relocate ...
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  • Lol 1 day ago

    John Mahama, go wey u with your risks!

  • Kofi 1 day ago

    Hahaha...... Atopa hene said what? He'll die like Nkrumah, if that's what it takes. I laugh enter the ladies. This coward? Nkrumah was a very brave man. He was selfless and didn't even have a place he could call his own at th ...
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  • Just talk talk 1 day ago

    All Talk talk

  • Vance 1 day ago

    Massa Massa reshuffle kraaa u dey fear.let us think.

  • CB Agyeman 1 day ago

    A Greek philosopher defined philosophy as the "Love of wisdom"Dr.Nkrumah was a philosopher hence full of wisdom.That is why Dr.Nkrumah was not corrupt. Mahama where is your wisdom..(non)that is why you are soo corrupt. The tw ...
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  • Carl 1 day ago

    Rawlings foretold that JM is the president for the future. I understand him now

  • Patrick 1 day ago

    Did his excellency think through this statement before making it. Everybodys purpose here on earth is different.

  • Cooli0 1 day ago

    Stupidity at its best

  • KA 1 day ago

    Anum dwa kwa. Does he have the qualities Dr Kwame Nkrumah had? What can Mahama do concerning African Unity? Under his watch ECOWAS is disintegrated. Ebola is devastating DR Congo. What has Mahama done?

  • Yaw 1 day ago

    Can he stop with all that foorish talk? 419

  • Kofi 1 day ago

    Never, ever mention Nkrumah and Lumumba in your dealings again. You aren't fit, even to untie their shoe laces. Did you hear any of those distinguished, patriotic men messing around with fianga little girls? Did you hear any ...
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  • Body Gay 1 day ago

    Listen to a confused joker. Mahama, please just go and park yourself somewhere. You can never achieve even one sixteenth of what Nkrumah did. Stop that bragging

  • Zazamata 1 day ago

    What is the dead goat saying, look at the poor roads in Accra, gargantuan rubbish in Accra, talk is cheap

  • Percy 1 day ago

    NPP can go burn the sea. NPP has their head buried in the sand.

  • COMMENT 1 day ago

    ha ha haaa!!! Mahama is following the footsteps of Kwame Nkrumah by melting the NDC into CPP. Now the two major political parties in Ghana are NPP and CPP.

  • Sarkodie 1 day ago

    Nkrumah didn't sit and watch corruption

  • COMMENT 1 day ago

    By confessing that he is following the footsteps of Kwame Nkrumah, President Mahama has declared that the NDC has melted into CPP. Now the two major political parties in Ghana are NPP and CPP.

  • Twe 1 day ago

    Mr President just solve the GALAMSEY problem for us first , we running out of portable water

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    1. Dr Kwame Nkrumah was arrested and put into PRISON-He sacrificed his life for his country Ghana-Nkrumah-NEVER STOLE-DID NOT BUILD ONE ROOM FOR HIMSELF.
    2. NELSON MANDELA-was arrested and put into prison for 27 years-HE SAC ...
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  • Chatty GH 1 day ago

    You can't even do a quarter of What Nkrumah did. May be, the persons who came close to three-quarters of His Achievements are Their Excellencies, Former Presidents John Agyekum Kufuor and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Like it ...
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  • Ewvevi 1 day ago

    At least this time around you've spoken and acted like a mature man, not any gyimi gyimi tendencies that I've come to know you for like you've displayed in the dull approach to holding corrupt npp officials to book. You're in ...
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  • Iddrisu 1 day ago

    I get it now that is why Bawku Naa Sheriga was kidnapped from his palace and taken to Accra without been charged in court.his family had to take the government to court and still you are fambiling to procecute him because you ...
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  • George 1 day ago

    African unity when we are not united within our own national borders? Give me a break.

  • Charles 1 day ago

    Stop wasting our ears. If Nkrumah gave all our gold mines to his brothers you wouldn’t come and meet any Ghana. In international circles this is the most corrupt behavior any leader can go as far as corruption goes. Shame

  • Holy Sinner 1 day ago

    Lo and behold, the western arse kissing detractors, who never thinks of emancipation despite their Elephant Shortingos of an ex President shamelessly cote Peter Tosh verbatim when conferring Ghanaian citizenship on black Am ...
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  • Efo Kofi 1 day ago

    KWAASHIAA KWAASHIAASEM you don't come closer to the people you mentioned nonsense

  • Ashanti brothers. 1 day ago

    You are just full of shit. Do you really think your talking to your tribe. Or the idiots in your party NDC.

  • Sycamore 1 day ago

    Talk Only No Action (NATO) Mahama is beginning to irritate some us who believed in him overwhelmingly,Mahama you promised to end galamsey but galamsey is ending you and your legacy, you promised to collect our money which was ...
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  • Faze 1 day ago

    His stupid followers will hail him.

  • Good 1 day ago

    Mahama, you are a scammer and a hypocrite. We dont have shirt' memories anymore..... Reset kankan paaa

  • Cc 1 day ago

    Even his own promises he's not been able to start fulfilling a single one of them. Too much talks,nothing to show.

  • kobby 1 day ago

    See mumu! shut the f*k up before they get all of us killed. you can never be like the GREAT DR KWAME NKRUMAH. Are you out of your mind.? or ibi the akpeteshie?

  • The Social media is bad for Ghana 23 hours ago

    Every Tom, Dick and Harry wants attention on SM. Use the tool to improve your life, share legitimate information, share knowledge open your eyes and ears. Do not sit in your room and condemn everything that will unite us. Do ...
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  • This is Serious 23 hours ago

    Joker

  • This is Serious 23 hours ago

    Another Brazil Bolsonaro

  • Atsu 23 hours ago

    Nkwasea keka kwa apuu

  • Mahama is now Nkrumah? 23 hours ago

    So Mahama is not even ashamed to compare himself to the venerable Nkrumah? What an illusion of grandeur! He pretends to be humble to deceive Ghanaians but he is not. At least Nana Addo never faked.

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  • STOP BEING AN IDIOT, SIR. RUSSIA IS A NATION IN DECLINE. 23 hours ago

    We live in a different era. These are not the days of old when Russia (USSR) was a force to reckon with. Today's Russia is a dead stinking horse!

    I really feel sorry I have to be so abrasive in my tone and language but the ...
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  • COMMENT 23 hours ago

    MAHAMA being a historian knows that Kwame Nkrumah:
    ● Ruled with the one-party system. Melting NDC into the CPP and abolishing all opposition parties.
    ● Ruled with the Preventive Detention Act (PDA)
    ● Ruled as the D ...
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  • Ntsiful 23 hours ago

    Yes, like Nkrumah did, you fo outside and preach unity but you come home and forment trouble and division between and among local groupings.
    What have you said and done about the ongoing behaviors of Dormaahene, the Bono Nky ...
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  • Sam Fante warrior. 23 hours ago

    You're right my president, we can't keep quiet and be like a fools. Someone must start it and someone has to finish it.

  • Obrempong 22 hours ago

    President Mahama is a confused man and it
    looks as if he is wallowing in ignorance of quagmire.
    You cannot serve your country Ghana well and
    how can you jump from one place to another without being able to do something you ...
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  • Jubilee House Snitch 22 hours ago

    The incompetent one is back from Russia with much delusional and dangerous propaganda. He couldn’t have been allowed to shine Dr Nkrumah’s shoes. Shine your eyes people of Ghana.

  • Osei Bonsu 22 hours ago

    This Gonja man should be careful ooooh.

  • Free Radicals 22 hours ago

    President Odenkyem is simply creating jokes for people to laugh.This is a person who claims he can’t take decisions on his own and he is indecisive person.so who can he take Risks Nkrumah took?

  • Torgbi Katsenakpor 21 hours ago

    Ghanaian leaders are full of talking with very little commitment to action. What is African Unity and how do you champion it? Start with Ghana and Togo. Why is the Ghana immigration and their Togolese counterparts harassing c ...
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  • Socrates Ewurafua 21 hours ago

    Hahaha, Mahama stop the nonsense now, Nkrumah was naturally gifted and a brave man, but you with a woman body and shallow brain talking the rubbish like that, you are coward, brain washed nutter. Hahaha, Apuuuu for where?

  • ChrisDag 19 hours ago

    Mahama is God chosen and anointed leader for Ghana and Africa, he is a blessing and indeed the Nkrumah of our time. May God continue to bless, protect you and put your enemies to shame

  • Raphael Abeam US 18 hours ago

    You are sweating to rule Ghana without any monumental projects but wants to include Africa. What vision do you have for Africa. Action speaks rather than words. The many things that you said you will do in Ghana you have not ...
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  • Kb 14 hours ago

    Africa do not need visionless person like you. Sharing of sanitary pad, nkoko nketenkete and aboboyaa ambulance. Deliver your promises and stop thinking of Africa. Do you have brain to Unite Africa, mr dead goat mahama ?

  • Francis B. 9 hours ago

    If Mahama cannot solve problems in his country, how can he solve problems of Africa?He is just bragging .Nobody should take him seriously.

  • Nana Edusei 5 hours ago

    Mahama is no Kwame Nkrumah. Nkrumah never dies.