Woyome Saga Could Be The Single Most Debilitating Hurdle Against Mills� Re-election

Deputy Minister of Information, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa claims the fiery statement by the Attorney-General, Martin Amidu in response to what he (A-G) says are publications by pro-government newspapers to run him down, has given the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) a lifeline as the NPP is trying to resurrect from a heavily bruised and dangerously damaged credibility. The A-G in a press release last Wednesday described sections of the pro-government media as �a partisan and rented NDC press group who perceive that I am not performing the duties of my office in their partisan political interests.� He accused the Daily Post, National Democrat and the Ghanaian Lens of allowing themselves to be used by an unnamed colleague minister of state. According to Mr Martin Amidu, a colleague Minister of State has connived to unleash the gullible section of the NDC press on him [Mr Amidu]. ��I wish core members and supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who cherishes the principles of and ideas upon which the party was founded to know that the attacks against me which started in the Daily Post publication on the 3rd January 2012 was planned by a colleague Minister of state who perceived that my integrity and professionalism as a lawyer was a threat to the concealment of gargantuan crime against the people of Ghana in which they must be implicated. An alibi was created in 30th December 2011 to unleash the gullible section of the NDC press on me by the leakage of official documents from my Ministry through the perverse section of a rented NDC press to the public beginning the 3rd of January 2012. That has back fired because the leaked official documents by the Daily Post; the Informer; the National Democrat; the Ghanaian Lens; etc have rather inadvertently supported my honesty and integrity in public office and my call for the prosecution of criminals regardless of their political party colorations or their social status�,� the statement partly read. The statement, he said, was necessitated by calls expressing support and urging caution for his safety, a reaction to publications that he is a big disappointment and an albatross hanging around the neck of the Better Ghana agenda and his perceived refusal to prosecute many cases submitted to him in court. But the A-G�s statement has been condemned by NDC loyalists with some calling for his dismissal for failing to use internal party structures to address his grievances. Indeed, quite remarkably, on Monday January 16th, not less than 7 pro-government newspapers (Daily Post, National Democrat, Ghanaian Lens, The Informer, Daily Democrat, The Catalyst, and The Crystal Clear Lens), rolled out with a similar screaming headline �A-G Martin Amidu Must Go�.