Don’t Dare Me – JJ Warns Mosquito
Published: Daily Guide on June 22, 2012
By Charles Takyi-BoaduFormer President Jerry John Rawlings yesterday reacted angrily to the
tantrums of National Democratic Congress (NDC) General Secretary
Johnson Asiedu-Nketia, who had called on supporters of the ruling party
to defy the NDC founder.
Spokesman for Mr. Rawlings, Kofi Adams, who addressed a press conference in Accra on behalf of his boss, said, “We want to use this platform to warn them that henceforth, the office (of Mr Rawlings) is not going to keep quiet over such reckless comments coming from people who don’t think before they talk.
“If they say anything that affects his Excellency the former President, we will respond in like manner or more,” Mr Adams warned, asking the party’s General Secretary in particular to be careful with his comments.
The former president had just returned from a trip to Israel only to learn about the unprovoked attack from General Mosquito, who virtually dragged his former benefactor on the floor.
Mr Rawlings was around when his spokesperson was addressing the journalists.
Mr Adams stressed the need for the leadership of the NDC to call Mr. Asiedu-Nketia to order before they stripped him naked.
An obviously angry Kofi Adams said, “We’ve had the late Dr Caiquo, we’ve had Huudu Yahyaha as General Secretary before. The NPP has had Dan Botwe as a General Secretary in government and Nana Ohene-Ntow also as a General Secretary in government. We have not heard this kind of behaviour or this kind of utterances from them.”
The forum was to address what Kofi Adams, who had been suspended from his position as Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, described as “very important issues that have gone on in recent past” in the NDC and the country as a whole, and to “expose the falsities that have been peddled by some persons including leading members of government and party to denigrate the founder” of the NDC and his wife.
It was somehow a direct response to a statement over the weekend by the party General Secretary when he addressed NDC supporters at Wa in which he was captured on tape saying, “One of the ideals of what we were taught as part of June 4th uprising is to engage in what we call positive defiance” and that as a means of implementing positive defiance, members of NDC should defy the founder and former President, Jerry John Rawlings and also Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings.
Mr. Asiedu-Nketia said this was because Mr. Rawlings and his wife had allegedly sought to work against the interest of the NDC as a party, virtually campaigning for the opposition candidate.
Credibility Crisis
“I was wondering whether our General Secretary or Hon Johnson Asiedu-Nketia was indeed the General Secretary when he spoke on that platform because I was wondering where he got his information from; where President Rawlings has been to, to ask that people vote for the opposition candidate and the issues that President Rawlings has been raising whether those were the issues he was expecting the party’s members to defy,” an obviously disgruntled Mr. Adams posited.
He could therefore not fathom why Mr. Asiedu-Nketia, often referred to as General Mosquito, had in the last couple of days been hopping from one radio station to another to defend his use of the term ‘barking dog’ to describe Mr. Rawlings, claiming that he never used the word.
“Those who keep calling and wanting unity, coming around, engaging some of us and all of us are doing what it is that we can do, we cannot continue building when you have somebody at the centre of affairs destroying,” Kofi Adams warned.
He used the occasion to urge supporters, sympathizers and those who believed in the ideals of probity, accountability and social justice, as espoused by the Rawlingses, to “remain resolute”.
Spokesman for Mr. Rawlings, Kofi Adams, who addressed a press conference in Accra on behalf of his boss, said, “We want to use this platform to warn them that henceforth, the office (of Mr Rawlings) is not going to keep quiet over such reckless comments coming from people who don’t think before they talk.
“If they say anything that affects his Excellency the former President, we will respond in like manner or more,” Mr Adams warned, asking the party’s General Secretary in particular to be careful with his comments.
The former president had just returned from a trip to Israel only to learn about the unprovoked attack from General Mosquito, who virtually dragged his former benefactor on the floor.
Mr Rawlings was around when his spokesperson was addressing the journalists.
Mr Adams stressed the need for the leadership of the NDC to call Mr. Asiedu-Nketia to order before they stripped him naked.
An obviously angry Kofi Adams said, “We’ve had the late Dr Caiquo, we’ve had Huudu Yahyaha as General Secretary before. The NPP has had Dan Botwe as a General Secretary in government and Nana Ohene-Ntow also as a General Secretary in government. We have not heard this kind of behaviour or this kind of utterances from them.”
The forum was to address what Kofi Adams, who had been suspended from his position as Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, described as “very important issues that have gone on in recent past” in the NDC and the country as a whole, and to “expose the falsities that have been peddled by some persons including leading members of government and party to denigrate the founder” of the NDC and his wife.
It was somehow a direct response to a statement over the weekend by the party General Secretary when he addressed NDC supporters at Wa in which he was captured on tape saying, “One of the ideals of what we were taught as part of June 4th uprising is to engage in what we call positive defiance” and that as a means of implementing positive defiance, members of NDC should defy the founder and former President, Jerry John Rawlings and also Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings.
Mr. Asiedu-Nketia said this was because Mr. Rawlings and his wife had allegedly sought to work against the interest of the NDC as a party, virtually campaigning for the opposition candidate.
Credibility Crisis
“I was wondering whether our General Secretary or Hon Johnson Asiedu-Nketia was indeed the General Secretary when he spoke on that platform because I was wondering where he got his information from; where President Rawlings has been to, to ask that people vote for the opposition candidate and the issues that President Rawlings has been raising whether those were the issues he was expecting the party’s members to defy,” an obviously disgruntled Mr. Adams posited.
He could therefore not fathom why Mr. Asiedu-Nketia, often referred to as General Mosquito, had in the last couple of days been hopping from one radio station to another to defend his use of the term ‘barking dog’ to describe Mr. Rawlings, claiming that he never used the word.
“Those who keep calling and wanting unity, coming around, engaging some of us and all of us are doing what it is that we can do, we cannot continue building when you have somebody at the centre of affairs destroying,” Kofi Adams warned.
He used the occasion to urge supporters, sympathizers and those who believed in the ideals of probity, accountability and social justice, as espoused by the Rawlingses, to “remain resolute”.