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Friday, March 11, 2016

Prez Mills is not in competition with Nana Addo-Mahama Ayariga
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

Accra, March 18, Ghanadot - The president John Evans Atta Mills has issued a stern warning to critics not to take his leniency as a weakness.

In his most unusual demeanor the president said recent developments in the country have given him enough cause for anxiety and concern.

“There is no other government in this country. There is no other president in this country… where you have people arrogate to themselves certain rights. Where people threaten that they are going to advise themselves and take the law into their own hands, I Atta Mills will not allow this to happen.

“I respect civility and politeness and I believe that people have taken my respect for peaceful co-existence as weakness, timidity and inability to act,” the president lamented.

The president made these remarks when members of the Ghana Journalists Association paid a courtesy call on him at the Castle, Osu on Tuesday.

Even though he was not emphatic on who or what these worrying developments are, one’s guess could not have been too far from right.

It is believed by members of the opposition NPP that President Mills statement was provoked by the welcome reception for Nana Akuffo Addo by the NPP faithfuls, but the presidential spokesperson, Mr. Mahama Ayariga dismissed this claim saying the president was only address issues that were of concern to him.

Mr. Ayariga said there is is no way President Mills will be jealous of Nana Addo, because he is not in competition with him.

According to him, the president made that statement in reaction to the manner a section of the public have been thinking that President Mills was weak regarding how to rule the nation.

Micah Audrey