Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., believes there is a deliberate and calculated attempt to smear and cast aspersions at the integrity of President John Evans Atta Mills.
President Mills� name has for some time now been enamored with one controversy after the other. Recently, he was accused of grabbing a �mansion� (a three-bedroom quarters for the security detail at his private residence), which later turned out to be a structure at the foundation level with contractors still pouring concrete on the floor. Then came the infamous but witty �I Will Hand Over Peacefully in 2017� remark. And now the STX Housing Project, which some describe as an albatross around his party�s neck.
Speaking to the issue as a panelist on Radio Gold�s Alhaji and Alhaji programme, Kwesi Pratt posited that it is a weak-minded attempt to smear the President, adding that it is better for such detractors to come to terms with the growing recognition of the President's honesty by a significant segment of the Ghanaian population, which vehemently abhor the type of corruption that was associated with some former regimes.
��If you watch the political scene recently, it is quite obvious that those who oppose the Mills� administration appreciates that the strongest point of the president has to do with his integrity and moral standing, and therefore over the last couple of months, a systematic attempt is being made to chip away this integrity and moral authority and that is obvious...anybody watching the political scene can see a determined calculated attempt,� he said.
According to him, those involved in this systematic crude act believes that when they divest the cloak of integrity and uprightness from the President�s back, the NDC will have nothing to base their campaign on.
�I think to a large extent those who have embarked on this strategy, know what they are doing; they have studied� and they know that the strongest point of the President happens to be his integrity and moral authority. And therefore I am not surprised at all about some of things which are happening in our society today�,� he said.
Source: Rebecca Quaye/Peacefmonline.com
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