The host of Yagbon Radio Morning show Diwura Abdul Fataw, has admonished party communicators who appear on his show to preach and ‘sell’ the policies they intend to implement to the electorates and stop the politics of insults.
He said as the political campaigning is gaining momentum, political parties especially communicators should concern themselves with how to package their messages and ‘sell’ such messages to the electorates since that is what will earn them votes on December 7 ,2024 when the country decides.
Speaking on his show on Friday, June 16, 2024, he noted that “supporters of political parties will emulate the examples of their communicators who employ intemperate language on various media platforms.
“Communicators should therefore be very mindful of the language they use and be guided by traditional customs and values”, he said.
The messages given to us by party communicators should not be provocative to engender violence and added that he will not hesitate to walk- out any communicator who appears on his show and trade insults at each other.
Since 1992 when the country returned to constitutional democracy and during every political season, we witness the use of intemperate languages in inter-party political discourse in Ghana.
The main political parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to a large extent are the main culprits.
The supporters of these two political parties have often traded insults and attacked one other at the least opportunity.
Although well-meaning Ghanaians have spoken against these shameful practices, political actors continue to trade insults during every political campaign circle thus, denting the country’s democratic principles.
As always, the is not far another major election and supporters of the two main parties have started raining insults on each other, even on live TV and Radio programmes.
Source: yagbonradioonline
