NPP’s Dabbousi Hails Mahama’s Kojo Choi Appointment; Says NPP ‘Bigotry’ Cost Him Same Chance

Prominent NPP activist and writer Fadi Dabbousi has praised President John Dramani Mahama and the NDC for appointing Korean-Ghanaian Mr. Choi as Ghana’s Ambassador-designate to South Korea 

The NPP activist revealed his own painful experience of rejection under the NPP due to his Lebanese heritage.

“I congratulate Mr. Choi on his appointment,” Dabbousi wrote. “Thank you John Dramani Mahama for showing that you are not a bigot.”

Dabbousi, who has long been a staunch member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), recounted his deep ties to Ghana, having been born and raised in the country by a father who settled here in 1949. 

He shared his political journey from grassroots activism to imprisonment, stating that his loyalty to the NPP and President Akufo-Addo was unwavering even spending time in detention cells for defending the party’s cause.

Despite that loyalty, Dabbousi revealed that his appointment as Presidential Envoy to the Middle East on Investment promised by President Akufo-Addo himself was ultimately blocked by unnamed figures within the government. 

According to him, the opposition came from party insiders who feared backlash over appointing someone of Lebanese descent.

“The argument of the narcissist bigots was that I am white and of Lebanese origins and giving me an appointment would incur the ire of Ghanaians, risking the 2020 general elections,” Dabbousi wrote. “I went pale.”

He described a string of postponed assurances from the President until he ultimately bowed out of the process in frustration. He also hinted at what he called an “undignified” attempt to remove him from Jubilee House in early 2017, revealing that further details will be published in his forthcoming book.