Former President John Mahama’s response from the managing director of the State Transport Corporation (STC), Nana Akomea, claimed that politics had damaged Mahama’s sharp mind.
He claimed Mr. Mahama’s propensity for disparaging his detractors is unworthy of someone of his stature.
He said that if the former president wants to run for re-election to the nation’s highest office, he should refrain from acting in such a way.
The former Okaikwei South MP urged Mr. Mahama to find different ways to interact with his critics in a Facebook post on Saturday.
“Even if President Mahama disagrees with me, I am sad that he chose to lace his disagreement with insults to my person, by implying politics had caused me to lose my ‘fine mind’.”
“The last time other citizens commented on this same sentiment of President Mahama, he met them with similar insults, calling them ‘Silly’.”
“I urge President Mahama, that if he wants to be President of Ghana again, he should refrain from insulting citizens,” he said.
Nana Akomea added that “I assure him I am still his friend and I still have a fine mind.”
The NDC flagbearer responded to Nana Akomea’s call for him to stop taking ex-gratia payments from the government.
Earlier this week, Nana Akomea urged the former president to exercise leadership and turn down any ex-gratia due to him during an appearance on Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo” program.
“So, you, President Mahama, today if you claim you don’t believe in the ex-gratia, the ones that you have taken, we know that you have spent it already, so we can’t say that go and bring it.”
“But the challenge I am giving to him is that the ones he will be taking from this month May, he shouldn’t take it, he should stop taking the ex-gratia, the same way Togbe Afede stopped and returned his own, he should follow the same principle,” Mr Akomea said on Peace FM.
Mr. Mahama clarified on Twitter on Friday in response to Akomea’s assertion that he does not accept ex-gratia.
“My friend Nana Akomea. Really sad what politics can do to a fine mind!
“I don’t take ex-gratia. I receive a monthly pension,” he said.
