Pollster, Ben Ephson has urged the Council of Elders of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to impress upon leading member of the party and former Education Minister Lee Ocran to apologize to the founder of the party and ex President J.J Rawlings for disrespecting him.
Mr. Lee Ocran who also served as High Commissioner to South Africa under the Mills administration has asked aspirants who are complaining that the forms and filing fees totaling GH¢420,000 is outrageous to go to the party’s founder and former President Jerry John Rawlings for support.
“They say they are going to their founder. Let them go there if he gives them their money, the Congress will be held”, he said.The aspirants including Second Deputy Speaker, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, Sylvester Mensah, Dr Ekwow Spio Garbrah, Joshua Alabi, Goosie Tanoh and Elikplem Agbemava are calling on the former president to intervene in the matter before their throats are slit.
But Mr Lee Ocran has called the bluff of Presidential hopefuls of the party who are raising concerns over the recently released filing fees of four hundred thousand Ghana cedis (GHC420,000) asked them to go sleep if they are unable to raise the stated amount.
“When they go to the constituencies they give money to people to campaign for them and so on. Now when they come to Accra come and pay for us we organize the final function for you…No! that one you have no money. If you have no money stay at home don’t participate. Those who want to participate will find money to pay”, he stated on Empire FM.
However Ben Ephson in an interview on Kasapa FM Thursday thinks Lee Ocran was discourteous in his comments against the party founder and must do the honourable thing of apologizing.
“I think the Council of Elders should ask him to apologize to the founder, he didn’t speak well. He was being rude and cheeky and I think that it does not go well for respect for the Founder (Rawlings). I think the Council of Elders should draw his attention to retract and apologize publicly to Rawlings because he spoke against him publicly. His comments were in very bad taste, that respect for the founder must be there.
“Even if Lee Ocran’s child had been elected Secretary to a party and the child says something he doesn’t need to come out publicly to criticize him or her. Again, one, Rawlings is older than him, two, he’s the Founder of the party and I think that there are many better ways in which he could have put his comments.
Source: kasapafmonline.com
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WHO IN THE NDC IS WISE APART FROM PRESIDENT RAWLINGS? THEY ARE ALL F000**00LS WHO LACK COURTESY! THEY WERE REARED LIKE POULTRY AND LIVESTOCK AT HOME SO WHETHER OLD OR YOUNG TALK ANYHOW! SUCH PEOPLE WERE HANDED OVER THIS COUNTRY TO DESTROY AND THEY HAVE NO SHAME TALKING AFTER THEIR HUMILIATING DEFEAT, I DON'T BLAME THEM BUT HOW THEY WERE BROUGHT UP. NDC ARE SO UNCIVIL THAT I DON'T EVEN THINK THOSE PRIMITIVE PEOPLE LIVING IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA WILL EVEN ACCEPT THEM AMONG THEIR FOLD HOW MUCH MORE GHANA A COUNTRY CIVILIZED WORLD LEADERS VISIT AND SPEND DAYS! NDC IS NOT A PARTY TO RULE A COUNTRY WITH THE TYPE OF PEOPLE IN IT, THEY ARE SO PRIMITIVE THAT THEY DESERVE TO HAVE THEIR OWN COUNTRY TO LIVE THEIR BACKWARD LIVES. A PARTY WITH NO VISION, NO CLUE,THEY COME TO CREATE, LOO00*T AND SHARE, INSULT, SHOW ARROGANCE, IMPUNITY, VIOLENCE AND SHOW OF POWER IF THESE ARE NOT PRIMITIVE TENDENCIES THEN WHAT? AND THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE?
This Nzema simpa panyin has always been a big fat T.O.K.E n B.3.L.3
Ah ben ephson, what did he say about Rawlings that he has to apologize. He also advised them to go for financial support from Rawlings. What is disrespectful about asking needy aspirants to go to their founder and beg for financial support? Tell me.
Oh, Lee Ocran, TWEAAAAAAAA! When has he EVER spoken sense? Is he not the one who said FREE SHS is only possible in 20 years to come and if it was possible Nkrumah would have implemented it. Old men with little minds. He also said the the oil Fmr. President led us to find siad in parliament as 'adwengo'. All these characters were in our parliament! Onnnnnpo!
Why are all these Mahama supporters not thinking of NDC beyond Mahama? Anybody who says something that appears to them to be against Mahama, they are all over the place insulting and condemning. So if even your Mahama wins the primaries, what are you going to do next after you have insulted everyone else? Rather than thinking of how the party can survive after the 2020 defeat which is certain, you are all banking your hopes on Mahama. How on earth do you think Mahama can win any presidential election again in Ghana?
GHC420,000 = £68,000 = $87,000. Whoever did not realised that this is an outrageous amount of money is out of his/her senses. Probity and accountability party? Tweeaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Insult has been his stock in trade. When Ghana discovered oil and sample was taken to Parliament he exhibited his behavior by retorting that it Palm Kernel oil that has been brought to the House. This is somebody who has been a Minister for Education in Ghana before. I am sure currently he is enjoying from the Palm Kernel Oil that he claimed was the discovery. WE SHOULD BEWARE OF SUCH ELEMENTS IN OUR SOCIETY
THIS MAN HAS NEVER SPOKEN S+EN*S-E IN HIS ENTIRE ADULT LIFE. THIS WAS THE FUULL WHO SAID THE OIL FOUND WAS FAKE AND THAT IT WAS "ADWE NGO". IT WAS THIS SAME MORON WHO SAID IT WOULD TAKE 20 YEARS TO IMPLEMENT THE FREE S.H.S AND THAT IF IT WAS POSSIBLE NKRUMAH WOULD HAVE DONE IT. THE SAD THING IS THAT THIS BLOCK HEAD WAS A MINISTER OF STATE. GOODNESS ME. ONCE A FUULL, ALWAYS A ........