Pronunciation Slip By Professor Naana Attracts Ridicule From Chairman Wontumi
Chairman Wontumi of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has ridiculed the NDC Presidential candidate’s running mate, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang for the difficulty she encountered while presenting some aspects of her party’s manifesto during its launch in Accra yesterday.
The Vice Presidential hopeful who mispronounced some keywords in her presentation attracted negative comments in some quarters. While others assumed that she was not fully prepared for the job assigned her at that august gathering, others also held the view that the NDC running mate deliberately chose not to read through the text prepared for her to prove her prowess as a Professor in English which did not help her.
However, according Chairman Wontumi, the fumbling exposed Prof. Naana Opoku Agyemang as somebody with a defect when it comes to reading which cannot be concealed by her heavily tauted academic status”
“I’m better than her even though my education did not carry me far. She should have hired me to read for her on that particular occasion. She is indeed a poor reader and she has been exposed big time..” He said on Wontumi TV/Radio on Tuesday as a panel member on the early morning Talk show programme hosted by Oheneba Nana Asiedu..
Contents of the text which Jane Nana denied a professorial touch in its reading included: “The next NDC Government will: make the Free Senior High School Programme better by ensuring that its numerous challenges are addressed,
She also announced that the NDC’s Free SHS programme would be extended” to cover students in private Senior High Schools in underserved/deprived areas
“The double track system will also be abolished.” She abolish the double-track system,” she noted..
.The Presidential candidate himself, John Dramani Mahama, also showed a similar symptom of weakness, albeit poor reading ability at the programme which suffered several inexplicable postponements. At a point the pronunciation of the word “NDC” got him confused. Before his tongue could get over the verbal slips to render service correctly he had mispronounced in an awkward manner the word, “NDC”.
A busy body who viewed the NDC’s manifesto launch said “The former President showed visible signs of feeling embarrassed on that occasion apparently because in his attempt to regain his composure he very nearly substituted NDC with NPP in his pronunciation flop – That would have been a monumental slip.” He teased.