I am a living goat - President John Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama yesterday said he has resurrected from the land of the dead, as he is no longer a ‘dead goat’ but a living one.

“I am a living goat not a dead goat,” he said jokingly, after the backlash from his ‘dead goat syndrome’ comment.

The President, addressing Ghanaians living in Botswana in March this year, said he had become impervious to threats of strikes and demonstrations back home and adopted what he termed a “dead- goat syndrome”, telling agitating labour groups and the opposition that a dead goat does not fear the knife.

His comment at the time caused public uproar and his political opponents in particular had since used the ‘dead goat’ analogy against him in almost every political discourse.

However, in an interview on state-run Uniiq FM in Accra in commemoration of the World Youth Day, President Mahama backtracked and said he had now changed from a dead goat to a living one, as strike actions by agitating public sector workers overwhelmed him.

Listen to the President above :