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Ghanaians prefer tall leaders -Research result shows

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  • Susuka 9 years ago

    Nonsense! We are degenerating from the lowest depths of pettiness to the bizarre and schizophrenia. This article makes it seem that Ghanaian journalists are definitely not serious.

    Faced with all the terrible problems, no ...
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  • PHILTY McNASTY 9 years ago

    Ghanaians abhor foolish railroaded idiots and journalists. Example Bature.

  • ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

    Al-Hajj, you are completely wrong, Ghanaian people prefare Presidents who are not pen-robbers(thieves)and uselsee like your Mahama. Calculate it youself the TONS of money Mill/Mahama Government have stolen and after that SHUT ...
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  • facts 9 years ago

    Al Haj should have taken us to ancient history .the Palestinian and the Israeli would prefer Goliaths and Sauls but God would choose the well trained skillful and God fearing David for better performance. That is when the dif ...
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  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    Nepotism and corruption encouraged through the back door by Mahama is the cause of weakened institutions and lack of justice or the respect for the rule of law . This shameful situation can only be remedied when pepeni and hi ...
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  • KB, London. 9 years ago

    Can't imagine, that in the midst of numerous challenges facing the country a journalist will waste time writing this rubbish. No wonder cholera is killing people. We are busy talking nonsense whilst submerging in filth.

  • The 9 years ago

    Ahaji just because you have the opportunity to write as a journalist doesn't meen you should just put any garbagr out there. There are many many intelligent Ghanaians, even if you have a very low IQ the results of the NPP ele ...
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  • The Truth in UK 9 years ago

    I realised my stupidity and ended reading this foolish message before the half-way mark. The bane of our illiteracy is what has ended us all in this messy economy. The picture of Victor Smith seemingly dancing agbadza or kund ...
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  • PUSSY RIOT - east legon 9 years ago

    Hahahaaaaaaaaaaa !

  • Shieee 9 years ago

    Outtarra is tall and handsome. Nana is no Ouattarra. 5ft 2in vrs 6ft 4in.

  • Ghfuo: hang nyantakyi! 9 years ago

    Most women think like jackasses. They should seek berma.tintingram brains, not body! Just becos u have big eyes don't mean you're civilised or have foresight!

  • Kwadwo 9 years ago

    Are you telling me Ghanaians will vote again for a guy who is contemplating hosting a soccer tournament that others have rejected because of Ebola?

  • seth CALL 07737190496 9 years ago

    this is sheer nonsense.who created short or tall? can you create yourself.who made handsome and ugly?we want wise and intelligent people to change the economy for better and not PERSONALITY.POOR JOURNALISM WITH HATRED.

  • ICONIC-07 9 years ago

    THIS IS A TYPICAL INSINUATION TO TURN VOTERS AGAINST AKUFO ADDO REGARDING HIS SHORTISH-FAT LOOKS.

    ALAN LOOKS MUCH BETTER, BUT THAT'S WHAT THE NPP HATE TO SEE.

    ALUTA CONTINUA !!!!!!!

  • BAAFOUR AKOTO 9 years ago

    THIS IS VERY STUPID RESEARCH L LIMAN, BUSIA, PESIDENT AKUFFU ADDO, MATTERS IS IDEARS AND WISDOM TO RULE/ YOUR RESEARCH BASELESS GO BACK TO SCHOOL OAY

  • kay de 9 years ago

    Useless article from fraudulent and bogus research. What was the height of Busia and Limann? Latter day peudo-journalists

  • Uncle Pee 9 years ago

    Ghanaians are not fools. They rather prefer leaders with wisdom and vision. Dr. Busia and Dr. Hilla Limann were all very short but Ghanaians found them worthy to lead them.

  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 9 years ago

    Irresponsible comment from fools who claim to be educated. What is the sense in this article? Studies clearly shows that men of huge status with big buttocks turn to be fools and cowards and lack wisdom and all that they put ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

    Two dwarfs go into a bar, where they pick up two prostitutes and take them to their separate hotel rooms.

    The first dwarf, however, is unable to get a screw. His depression is enhanced by the fact that, from the next room, ...
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  • Kofi Ntonton 9 years ago

    This is yet another stupid,inane and infantile nonsense from the stable of the NDC. The NDC routed for Kyerematen and failing that they have started their mudslinging this time in the name of the height of Nana Addo. They hav ...
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  • Joe 9 years ago

    If personality plays any role in electing a leader of a nation, Ahmadinidjan (spelling of his right name) could not have won an election in Iran to be the President. Presidency is not about stature but it has to do with know ...
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  • ASEM DA ONIPA SO 9 years ago

    THIS IS A SUPER NONSENCE COLUMN TO GHANAIANS. WHY SHOULD YOU PUBISH SUCH AN ARTICLE? TRAVEL TO THE WESTERN WORLD AND SEE THEIR LEADERS. YOU PEOPLE ARE MAD. WE NEED BRAINS WITH GOOD THINKING FOR THE FUTURE AND NOT ANY STUPID F ...
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  • Kofi Adu Bediako 9 years ago

    Foolish article,who will this benefit?
    Please give us a break Ghanians are not fools.To dress nicely and tall with nothing in your brains will lead us to no where.
    Look at our chiefs with gold all around them ,yet look at t ...
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  • AJINGO 9 years ago

    Bature no wonder u are developing rotting teeth. Just find time to clean ur teeth and stop pretending to be a fool

  • Dr Bawumia 9 years ago

    Another blow to the shadow Prez on Npp

  • Batcha 9 years ago

    Jokes apart, I have heard that comment before. In the 1992 general I had a conversation with a middle aged woman who said she never liked Rawlings until she saw him in person. She changed her mind instantly and voted for whom ...
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  • Joe Turkey 9 years ago

    Yes, Limann was short, very short, maybe 5 feet 6 inches. Busia was short, Atta Mills was short. All these were elected leaders. Jerry Rawlings was tall and was an idiotic murderer.

  • Abrantie 9 years ago

    It is very true. Nana is not a presidential material as simple as that.

  • Pumpuni 9 years ago

    May be Bature loves those tall men who leave their brains in their knees while growing up.

  • Krez 9 years ago

    nonsense, nonsense, and nonsense to the highest degree. what research? why don,t this bogus "kokonte" researcher do research on cholera? stupid Ghanaians! instead of them to look for a leader who can move the country forward, ...
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  • Teye 9 years ago

    Bature you are a liar and a hater.foolish idiot!

  • sammy 9 years ago

    SOME OF GHANAIANS ARE USELESS INDEED. CAN STRUCTURE PRODUCES WISDOM OR INTERIGENT? CONTINUE THINKING SUCH CHILDISH IDEAS AND GHANA WILL CONTINUE SINKING OF COURSE

  • KUDZ 9 years ago

    YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO DISAGREE WITH THAT RESEARCH OR OBSERVATION BUT TRUTH IS GHANIANS ARE NOT ALONE WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD WANTS AS PRESIDENT OR POLITICAL LEADERS.. THEY LIKE TALL MEN! ANOTHER STUDY FR ...
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  • Shabi 9 years ago

    My friend, in America they even voted for Ronald Reagan and George Bush in recent times. Whether they were tall or not, what can be a worse travesty of democratic choice than this? Not even Ghanaians in their typically bad ch ...
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  • Chelsea Rolland 9 years ago

    Foolish

  • jt 9 years ago

    NPP never seat down to ask themselves this very truthful question what is about nana that majority of Ghanians don't like. Rather they think they can force or convince Ghanians to accept whatever they like. Not smart way.

  • jt 9 years ago

    I'm surprised by the attack on ur result like we have an adage which says truths are always bitter pills in this sense bitter to hear but nothing can change it.Tribal politics has reduced once intelligent society to idiots on ...
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  • Martin Amidu's Loyalist 9 years ago

    Infact is true,this is what most people want especially the ladies but they easily divorce them,when they realise they don't have any vision to sustain the family and that's what happens to the presidency.If you aren't perfo ...
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  • HAWA YAKUBU 9 years ago

    NPP supporters can call this garbage or look mildly contemptuous at this survey but its the gospel truth. I said this about Nana when he was even running against K4. There is no moment I will not mention Nana disadvantage on ...
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  • HAWA YAKUBU 9 years ago

    HUMMMMM

  • NANAO!! MOTHER 9 years ago

    You idiot Hawa Yakubu you need NANA ADDO?S free education.what do you mean in your comments: when things don`t go their they way?. I bet you either you or any person in your family will not live to see NANA as president, the ...
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  • OUTRE 9 years ago

    OH POOR AKUFFO ADDO. HE WILL HAVE TO GROW TALL NOW AND HIS BEAUTY HAS TO SHOW NOW. HA HA HA HA.

  • ISSA ABONGO 9 years ago

    THE WORK OF LEADERSHIP IS NOT A BEAUTY CONTEST, ELSE GHANA UNDER RAWLINGS FOR 19 YEARS WOULD HAVE BEEN PARADISE. LOOK AT THE NDC PARTY, FOUNDED BY TALL, MIXED RACE RAWLINGS AND HE ENCOURAGED SHIT BOMBING AT HIS OPPONENTS OFFI ...
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  • KKA 9 years ago

    Nonsense! Is President Mahama bulky and tall? Was Dr. K. A. Busia tall? Was Dr H. Liman and president A. Mills tall? Please be factual before you make fool of yourself.
    We have to be serious as a nation.

  • Asem se be 9 years ago

    This is a pack of nonsense that is not worth the paper is written on. If it is true then it means Ghanaians think with their eyes not their head. No wonder empty headed fools like Rawlings was able to rule for twenty years. R ...
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  • Quaye 9 years ago

    The truth. Nana and NPP themselves know but always refuse to avcept . I swear Nana is good but lacks personal appeal

  • OPOKU 9 years ago

    GHANAINS PREFER INTELLIGENT, SENSIBLE, AND MATURED LEADERS NOT THIS STUPID PRESIDENT LIKE MAHAMA.

  • wisdom 9 years ago

    I'm surprised how many people are citing Dr liman here bcos its about hieght. I thought we never agreed limann wasn't a president? So not even a stone is named after limann.

  • Kojo 9 years ago

    Diabolical

  • KKK 9 years ago

    IDIOTIC JOURNALISM
    GUTTER NEWSPAPER
    RENTED BRAINLESS AL HAJJ

  • Bread and kokonte 9 years ago

    The Dwarf of Akyem kyibi. Nana. Addo. Dankwa period.

  • Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

    Akufo Addo should wear mock to tallolise him , he is too short for our likened

  • ISSA ABONGO 9 years ago

    REMEMBER HELL FIRE.

  • Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

    He is a Dwarf n Ghana dont need this useless idiots oldman

  • gifty 9 years ago

    Why should you Alhaji provoke Ghanaians to such insults on your very personality. Is that how low you are sinking this noble profession. Are you in Ghana? Look at how this nation has been raped, how your so called honourable ...
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  • sab 9 years ago

    useless survey

  • Asamoah FORSON 9 years ago

    some BRAVE MAN MUST WAEKUP IN GHANA.

  • SHAKA 9 years ago

    RESEARCH INTO EBOLA AND OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS AND STOP THIS PROPAGANDA RESEARCH. STUPID FOOLS WITH EMPTY HEADS. HOW WILL GHANA DEVELOP IF WE HAVE PEOPLE LIKE THESE MAKING FOOLISH RESEARCH.

  • Edem 9 years ago

    Al Hajj again ,always formenting trouble, there have been successful leaders like NAPOLEON ,Winston Churchill, Mbeki, Obasanjo, Busia etc, they were all short people.

  • Asamoah FORSON 9 years ago

    ONE OF THIS. DAYS SOMEBODY IS GONIG TO THE LAW TO HIS HAND LIKE JJ.AGIAN.MARK MY WORD.OKEY ..

  • Listen to that criminal over there 9 years ago

    Was it Indian voters who took part in the just ended NPP primaries to vote for Akufo Addo

  • oboitey 9 years ago

    Silly NDC propaganda article. Ghanaians are now fed up and wise. Wait and see

  • ISSA ABONGO 9 years ago

    LEADERSHIP IS ABOUT COMPETENCE, HONESTY AND CANDOUR, NOT TALLNESS AND HANDSOMENESS. REMEMBER WINSTON CHURCHILL, THE GREAT PRIME MINISTER AND WAR LEADER OF BRITAIN. HE WAS SHORT, STOCKY, BUT A LEADER WHO HELPED DEFEAT HITLER, ...
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  • JOE 9 years ago

    Good researcher

  • NANAO!! MOTHER 9 years ago

    Idiot like your research.

  • Dogo 9 years ago

    Do Ghanaians prefer brainless ones like Mahama?

  • adams 9 years ago

    stupid fool is not true u this folking guy u lie too much we dont beleive in u.

  • Lazarus 9 years ago

    Nana is too short to lead Ghana

  • Nana Bonso 9 years ago

    i can see that all the attackers are short people but whether you like it or not that is the truth. Short people are very wicked and dangerous compared to tall people.

  • Simple truth 9 years ago

    Al HAJI stop this CHILDISH THINKING.Mahama falls into YOUR prefed analysis BUT he is a VERY, VERY, USELESS president for any SERIOUS COUNTRY.

  • Adwoa 9 years ago

    Whoever posted this is a big fool like mahama. E bi tallness we go eat. Nkwaseafo)

  • Kwabena 9 years ago

    We have had a lot of tall but headless 'leaders'.

    That is the result of our constant retrogression as a nation!

  • KWAME 9 years ago

    ALHAJI THIS IS STU.PID. AND SENSELESS.

  • amma ataa 9 years ago

    foolish dam alhaji we want one with BRAINS to make Ghana okay not Tall Foolish like YOU

  • agbeko 9 years ago

    is this wht u people called journalism, wonder how u obtain ur first degree. idiots

  • kiki 9 years ago

    this time around your foolish propaganda wont work

  • GOVERNOR FUGA 9 years ago

    INFACT THIS MAN IS AS TALL AS A
    MALT BOTTLE.

  • Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

    That's why he is so stupid n his father was a useless President in Ghana

  • GOVERNOR FUGA 9 years ago

    As tall as terramycin capsules.

  • amma ataa 9 years ago

    stupid very very very stupid dont you know TALL people ARE the MOST STUPID in the WORLD Now women have seenTALL & FAT MEN ARE STUPID esp GHANAIN Ladies living abroad SHAME of YOUR ILLITRACY in Ghana

  • ABLETSI 9 years ago

    ARE WE SERIOUS AS A NATION? I AM TOTALLY SHOCKED ABOUT THIS. GHANAIANS, LET US BE SERIOUS. THIS IS AN INSULT TO ALL SHORT PEOPLE IN GHANA. WISDOM IS A GOD GIVEN THING AND WE DO NOT NEED HEIGHT TO RULE A NATION. IN COTE D'I ...
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  • akua 9 years ago

    we need AYANSAFO WISE LEADERS

  • akua 9 years ago

    SMELLING ALHAJI

  • Alex 9 years ago

    When will this stinking pepeni mature?

  • KK 9 years ago

    alhajj be preparing to go your parents in burkina faso. We will lynch you soon. stupid animal Bature

  • foolish research 9 years ago

    all our TALL keaders were nothing only stealing example Rawlings kill to loot Kuffour gentle to loot in other way shame on you

  • Abrantie 9 years ago

    Which of the two obtain third class at the university. It is clear Nana is not fit for Nkrumah's Ghana.

  • USMAN. 9 years ago

    How tall was Shimon Perez? You see how useless university graduates like Alhaji Bature could be. When civilized countries are thinking of how to colonize outer space alHajji news paper is talking about the political prowess o ...
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  • Frank 9 years ago

    If this is the case then Ghana should be headed by Miss Ghana. I petty Ghana!!! Has handsomeness got something to do with one's intellegent level? If yes then some of us are much handsome the names you mentioned. There is a s ...
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  • Ammaba 9 years ago

    The world look up to a leader and down on a leader. To be short and diminutive is a handicap. If you refuse to accept this psychological fact look around the world. Only idiots do not know this.

  • David Moise 9 years ago

    I think that this journalist call Alhaji Bature is consistantly loosing his credibility as a journalist by the way he analyses issues of national concern. May God/Allah have mercy on this man for discriminating against His cr ...
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  • AKWAPIMBA,LAS PALMAS DE G.C., SPAIN 9 years ago

    -RULING A COUNTRY OR WITH YOUR POSITION OF WORK IS NOT YOUR STRUCTURE.IS YOUR INTELIGENCE TO TACKLE THAT JOB.SO THAT MAKE NO SENCE.GEN.FRANCO RULED SPAIN FOR 40 YEARS.WIYHOT ANY PROBLEM.

  • Concern citizen 9 years ago

    Bature or whatever you call yourself. Go get mirror and check yourself. You too dey call urself human being. Idior

  • Sensible citizen 9 years ago

    Waste of time and money,
    Stupid research

  • bature 9 years ago

    nkwaseasem. where aa d questionnaire

  • Nyorkopio 9 years ago

    This is tabloid stuff. Please write up something serious and challenging to man's intellect.

  • Tango & Cash 9 years ago

    Please don't insult the intelligence of Ghanians! Only an idiot would honestly admit he prefers a Tall Idiot to a Short Visionary with a Can-Do spirit and brains! Regardless of colour, religion, tribe! I will take the Short m ...
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  • GOLDMAN 9 years ago

    S

  • Bugri 9 years ago

    Maybe, It's only in Ghana that such is counted as research journalism. Whoever that Alhaji Bature is, he is a big disgrace to his Alhaji title and his profession.

  • Odeishi Ampah 9 years ago

    Akuffo Addo will prove you wrong. His father was once the President of Ghana even though he was only 2 feet 3 inches tall

  • SHAKARA 9 years ago

    GHANA HAS NEVER HAD A PRESIDENT THAT SHORT. FROM NKRUMA TO MAHAMA. THEY WERE ALL PRESENTABLE. THERE IS NOTHING GOOD ABOUT NANA THAT MAKES HIM LOOK LIKE A PRESIDENT.

  • C.Stephen Sackey 9 years ago

    This is a planted article even low information voters can see.

    God bless Pan African's black pearl.

  • Piss like hell 9 years ago

    I am always very suspicious about men who check out other men. A man describing his preference for 'thick and tall men is very self explanatory. Mr. Journalist, you are pink in your radiation. GAY!