Former President Jerry John Rawlings has defended his comments during the 38th anniversary of the June 4 Revolution and his high praises for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
According to the former President, recent criticisms of his person and wife would stop him from speaking the truth and saying things the way they are.
“And as for Nana Addo (The President) I couldn’t give a damn if he was the son or cousin of the devil. He has displayed more materialistic integrity and much much more than all the three Johns put together”, he wrote in two separate Facebook posts.
Titled, Tagging Me Won’t Wash’ and ‘Let’s Give Truth A Chance’, the former President wrote: ”
If you had the privilege of being in my presence on those money matters then you know I have absolutely nothing to hide. I stated the facts in my original interview to the Nigerian newspaper and further explained in the Daily Graphic subsequently.
“Trying to tag Rawlings and his wife as corrupt in order to justify your dishonest and corrupt ways won’t wash. It did not work before and will never work.
“Sadly many of you are so intellectually shameless and inherently dishonest that you have to continue doing the bidding of your paymasters.
One of the weaknesses of this democracy is that SOME people with character deformities seem to have a bigger say or space in the media landscape, tagging themselves as social commentators and political analysts.”
In the second post, he wrote: “And as for the Nana Agyeman matters, no amount of these persistent lies and manufactured stories will undo the known truth. Let’s give truth a chance let’s give truth a breathing space; let’s clean up our blackened image.
And as for Nana Addo (The President) I couldn’t give a damn if he was the son or cousin of the devil. He has displayed more materialistic integrity and much much more than all the three Johns put together.
“I would welcome nothing more than this government putting all three of you on your Adom FM programme under the chairmanship of your host to reinvestigate any of these twisted allegations brought against Nana and I.
“Bring along your perfidious nature, your jaundiced views and prejudiced mentality. And by the way I don’t do family business or allegiance in any aspect of my life.
“There are those who believe that blood is thicker than water but there are those of us who believe that principles are thicker and override the binding effect of blood”, he wrote.
The former President has come under severe criticism after his comments in Wa, Upper West Region, with many accusing him and his wife of being corrupt themselves, in response to his assertion that the National Democratic Congress, NDC, lost the 2016 elections because of the ‘sickening greed’ of the government of former President John Dramani Mahama.
Source: Dan Kwasi Prince // www.dailyviewgh.com / Ghana
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