Bamboi Chiefs praise President Mahama

The Chiefs and People of Bamboi have commended President John Dramani Mahama for his victory in the elections and successful induction into the highest office of the President of the fourth Republic.

A statement released and signed by the Paramount Chief of Bamboi Tranditional Area on Monday, January, 14, Nana Kwaku Damoah read:“We the chiefs and people of Bamboi can only wish for the best of leadership and God’s blessing for you and calls on all Ghanaians irrespective of their ethnic, religious and political differences to unite behind the President, and offer the requisite understanding, cooperation and prayers in this history beckoning leadership whose huge challenging responsibility has starved it of the usual fashion and comfort of Presidential Office.”

 “With your acceptance as a worthy son of the least-visible but three-ethnically diverse Northern Regions united only by poverty as a national symbol, Trademark and Test of Leadership, the challenge to your leadership is enormous in building bridges between Poverty and Prosperity because you have lived, seen and felt poverty.”

Portions of the statement also read:  “Having been part of your leadership Beginning and Grooming for this country, we genuinely believe your quest to occupy the highest office of the land was not occasioned by the need to fill a Position, but to fulfill a purpose in response to leadership and national development”.

“Your stunning rise to the highest office of the Land is of historic importance, not only in terms of bringing your charismatic attributes, Youthful spirit and personality and your passion for success to bear on the leadership of this country, but also deepening the common cultural and modern political historic bond we share with you for putting the hitherto unknown and least mentioned Bamboi and Bole in the Political Profile of Ghana as well as mending a culturally diverse Bamboi and Bole as Twin-Traditional Areas, whose attraction and twinning significance is inextricably linked to your personality and leadership. This is an eloquent demonstration of the fact that unity is a practical part of your leadership character and this country can count on you in this Endeavour for national unity and Development.”

From: Adu Gyamfi Ameyaw