John Dumelo denies endorsing President John Mahama

Following reports that certain individuals have promised to ‘boycott’ movies starring John Dumelo due to what they perceive to be an endorsement of President Mahama during the 2012 general elections, actor John Dumelo has denied ever endorsing the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its Presidential Candidate. John Dumelo joined a couple of other movie stars to ‘endorse’ the NDC’s John Mahama in a peace message which was aired on all the television and radio stations in the country. John Dumelo’s promo asked Ghanaians to consolidate the existing peace that in the country. This gave the indications that, the actor has publicly endorsed the NDC even though he did not say so in the short message. Speaking on Peace FM’s Entertainment Review show on Saturday, the award winning actor explained: “I did not directly endorse NDC…I did a peace commercial or message for Ghanaians which was funded by the NDC party.” According to John, he did not record any peace message for the other parties because “they didn’t approach me.” However he recorded messages for other companies who approached him. Answering questions relating to a story published in the Graphic Showbiz that, movie enthusiasts in Kumasi in Ashanti Region, a strong hold of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) have promised not to patronize any movie he and another actor Clement Bonney popularly known as Mr Beautiful who also publicly endorsed the NDC are featured in, John commented that he was sad about it. He added that the Ghanaian movie industry is focusing on bigger and better things this year; so promising not to purchase movies because you don’t like the people in the movie cannot help the country and the growth of the industry.]]>