Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has expressed shock over recent comments of President John Dramani Mahama claiming they do not suit his personality.
“Certain words are there that the President must not utter…truth is one… I don’t think he is been himself at all…,” he said.
President John Mahama has courted negative press in recent times over comments targeted at the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).
He is reported to have said during a rally in Tamale that he wouldn’t have been President if he was not a member of the NDC.
Addressing party faithful at the Trade Fair Site in Accra, the President also claimed that aside former Presidents John Rawlings and Kufuor who have been Presidents in Ghana before him, no one was fit to describe him as an ‘incompetent President’.
In Ho, the President described an NPP press conference which responded to his utterances as a ‘rabbit press conference’ organized by their ‘Opana’ acting chairman.
The NPP and its communicators have also described the comments as ‘unfortunate’ insisting that ‘a live rabbit is better than a dead goat.’
But these exchanges, Kwesi Pratt said could have been avoided if the handlers of the President had offered him adequate tutorials before he appeared in public to speak.
He therefore implored them to learn from the NPP’s flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who he said always prepares adequately before making a public appearance.
“Nana Addo, when we used to work with him during the Alliance for Change days always prepared well and anticipated questions that would come to him before he made a public appearance…,” he said on Acra-based Peace FM.
According to him, he and his colleagues in the Convention People’s Party (CPP) used to have rehearsals with the 2000 flagbearer of the party, Prof Hagan before he always made a public appearance.
“With Professor Hagan, we even went to the extent of hiring people to teach him how to read in public and others,’ he revealed.
Kwesi Pratt therefore called on the handlers of the President to be up and doing as he is courting bad press over recent negative utterances.
“For any person speaking whether at a rally or whatever, there should be preparations…but I wonder if the handlers can tell him this…,” he said.
Source: Dan Kwasi Prince // www.dailyviewgh.com / Ghana
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