The flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama says President Akufo-Addo does not have the moral right to complain about name-calling.

The former President accused Akufo-Addo of displaying his frustrations ahead of the December 7 polls.

“What I remember is that I shared the post of one of our finest and brilliant MPs from Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo. In that post, Adongo described certain people in the Akufo-Addo government…you know he has a lot of his friends and members of the family in his government so Isaac Adongo described those people behind a certain shady deal in the government in that particular manner,” he said in an interview with Radio XYZ in Wa.

“In the first place, the national Chairman of my party, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, is an Akyem and so are so many leading members ad supporters of the NDC.

“When I was a President, I appointed a lot of Akyems…the head of the NDC manifesto drafting committee, Prof Danso Boffoe is an Akyem and they have all contributed to our goverment and our forward march to recapture power in December…” he said.

Defending the post which he shared on his Facebook wall, the flagbearer said, President Akufo-Addo has been engaging in name-calling since he was in opposition and must, therefore, not be offered to be at the receiving end when in power.

“Everybody knows me I’ve been in politics and I will be the last to express any ethnic sentiment, but in any case, President Nana Akufo-Addo has lost the right to complain. You know a long time ago he was an opposition leader who called Presidents before him anything you can imagine, including 'Professor Do Little' and then he described somebody as ‘Simpa Payin’. I do not want to repeat some of the other things he said” Mahama recounted.

“He, the president, who has called his critics naysayers and Jeremiahs, I don’t understand on what standard he can be offended at this time because he has a precedent of name-calling” the former president stressed.

“Well I think that temperament in leadership is very important and then there are many things a President should attend to and you must not appear in public to have lost your cool, you see him very angry that is very true but I think he should maintain his temperament,” John Mahama said.

The ex-president’s comment follows a statement by President Akufo-Addo expressing worry over the name-calling and politics of insults by his major opponent, John Dramani Mahama.

Addressing the leadership of the Catholic Bishops Conference, President Akufo-Addo said he could not fathom why a former President will go so low as to engage in ethnocentric politics.