The General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has stated that Anita Desooso, a vice chairperson of the opposition NDC, did not have the consent of the party to apologize to former President Jerry John Rawlings.
According to Mr Nketiah, the party’s former National Women’s Organizer openly apologised to Mr. Rawlings – founder of the party on her own volition, virtually telling her that she deserves the embarrassment that greeted her at Madina.
Mr. Rawlings openly castigated Anita at the event for excessive bleaching and advised her to put a stop to it.
What Offence?
“As we speak now, nobody knows the offence for which Anita was apologising for. We called her to a meeting after the incident and tried to find out what offence she was referring to but she couldn’t answer, so we consider it to be her personal issue with the founder,” the NDC scribe told Joy FM yesterday.
“I am talking to you as chief executive of the party and the person who keeps the records of decisions of the party,” Mr. Asiedu Nketiah insisted, adding “I am telling you that we never at any point discussed the possibility or anything about approaching the founder (Mr. Rawlings) and apologising for anything.”
Desooso’s Antics
Anita Desooso caused a stir during the 39th Anniversary celebration of the June 4th Uprising held at the Madina Social Welfare Centre in Accra when out of the blue she knelt before the former President, held his legs and asked him to forgive her and the NDC because she said Mr. Rawlings was the father who brought her to political limelight.
She said specifically: “Now to my father – founder (Rawlings), I know your children we’ve erred, and I also know that you’re a human being and you have also done something; maybe it is not right and I was so happy when I heard you say that when you brought that statement out rendering an apology – you are a hero. You are a hero.”
She added, “This shows that what you have taught me is still within me. If you are a leader, be prepared to say that I’m sorry. If you’re a child, be prepared to say that daddy I’m sorry. So I’ll take this opportunity on behalf of the party to kneel down before my dad – please forgive us. Let us come together to build this country.”
Stop Bleaching
This, however, did not move Mr. Rawlings who would not even look in her direction.
When he took the microphone, he hilariously said “Hmm! Hmm! But she is getting too fair. Let us stop this kind of things. The use of these kinds of soaps (bleaching soaps) is not good. She said she is my daughter so allow me to say it. Let it serve as a lesson. Tomorrow too come and stand here and say that I am your father. Anita! Anita!”
The former President did not also end there, as somewhere in between his address, he went back to the topic, throwing the crowd into laughter and jeers.
Mr. Rawlings demanded some answers from Anita when he touched on the NDC’s treatment of Martin Amidu and his subsequent appointment as the Special Prosecutor by the NPP government.
“Anita what does that make of us? Anita, I am calling your name, won’t you mind me?” Anita says I am her father,” the former President teased.
Crook Comment
Former President Rawlings recently descended heavily on Ms Desooso, calling her a ‘crook’ in a short video which went viral.
Speaking Twi interspersed with English in the video, which appears to have been recorded recently at a social gathering at an unidentified location, the former President said “that Anita, she is a crook! She was lucky I didn’t speak about her that day during the June 4th celebration.”
Amid spontaneous laughter from the gathering, he said that “what she did was pre-planned. How can a woman go on her kneels pleading for forgiveness for herself and her party?”
“You know instead of accepting me graciously and then letting it go, you are so mean that you even go and talk about…what do we call it…her bleaching, bleached face. No…no…no, maybe, sometimes I say the inappropriate things. I should have said it there and then,” Mr Rawlings, who was in the company of his wife, former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, fired.
Source: Graphic.com.gh
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Ama Sarpong or whatever you call yourself, I think you are on tramadol or really out of your mind, do you in the ndc think you matter at all to the NPP?apuuuuuuu! Look, my president,is somebody who has lived a real if and to the fullest, I follow and love a decent and a responsible man who on this earth wouldn't love his/her father being responsible and respected, even your John mahama a conman and a rogue you think in your world is somebody, he should thank Prof. Mills for choosing him out of lack of human resources in the Ndc, if John mahama were to be in the NPP constituency chairman would have been a problem for him to get. You people in the ndc must realize that in 2008 Prof. Mills never won on a silver platter but won by runoff which the other smaller parties came together to help the ndc, the first round was won by Oseadeayo Nana Addo but short of the 50+1 else ndc would never had come to power that time for mahama to get the chance to mess the country. Ndc must thank the CPP and other parties that helped them to win the second round. They should never think they are threat because they never won elections against the NPP with more than 40,000, 2012 elections were rigged by the ndc with the help of Afari Djan who is nowhere to be found now and he retired after the election petition which exposed him and the ndc.Ndc is satanic!
Ooh this my party NDC again? I think I have to join my mum in that party. So im out now....NDC bye bye
ANITA APOLOGISED TO JJ FOR AN UNKNOWN CRIME. JJ MADE COMMENT OF HER ABOUT HER BREACHING SKIN AND LATER EXPRESSED DOUBT ABOUT THE GENUINENESS OF HER APOLOGY. THE REACTION OF JJ WAS TO TEST WHETHER ANITA WAS SINCERE. THE RESPONSE FROM FIRST THE SON OF ANITA, AND THEN ANITA HERSELF HAS PROVED JJ RIGHT OF HER DOUBT. THE CONTINUOUS INSULTS OF THE INTELLIGENCE OF JJ AND, AS WELL AS HIS WIFE DEMONSTRATE CLEARLY THAT ANITA WAS NEVER EVER SINCERE IN HER APOLOGY. IT WAS JUST A MERE CAMOUFLAGE AND SHE WAS VERY INSINCERE IN THE APOLOGY. SHE HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING GOOD WITH THAT APOLOGY BUT HAS RATHER WORSEN MATTERS. SHE IS EVIL AND MUST BE THROWN OUT OF THE INNER CIRCLE OF NDC.
Did Asiedu Nketia say this or not? Did the incident with Anita and Rawlings happen @June 4th? Yes or NO?!
Everybody will see his or her last in ndc as time goes on. Anything that goes up/high comes down/low.
Fuuliish NPP Despite Group FM Stations always skewing things to NPP's favour. Uselessss girls who read newspaper headlines at Neat FM will always say it as it is when it is about Mahama and from NPP's aligned newspapers, but try to white-wash everything negative about Akufo Addo because he is their god. Uglly and cheap Akosua Sarpong and her lieutenants must wise up!
Of course it was a spontaneous action.... you won't expect theparty structure to anticipate such a move. how could they all have agreed to it???!!
'Saaayooooooo!