Pronunciation Slip By Professor Naana Attracts  Ridicule From Chairman Wontumi

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.

 

 

By Jackson Odom Kpakpo