Pius Hadzide
Deputy Information Minister, Pius Enam Hadzide, has dismissed a report by the Daily Post newspaper that President Nana Akufo-Addo has unleashed him on former President John Agyekum Kufuor.
A news report by Daily Post on Thursday, August 13, 2020, claimed “Akufo-Addo unleashes Pius Hadzide on J.A. Kufuor to denigrate the ex-President’s legacy.”
But Mr. Hadzide in a rejoinder, stated that “I wish to state for the record that the said publication is false. It is only a further attempt by a discredited newspaper to soil the good image of the President, H.E. Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo and I and to cause enmity between the two venerable statesmen; John Agyekum Kufuor and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.”
“At no point has there been any attempt to bring to disrepute the legacy of the former President J.A. Kufuor nor has the President directed me on any such agenda. Indeed it is the desire of the current administration to improve upon and safeguard the legacy of the high performing J.A. Kufuor administration in which Nana Akufo Addo served with distinction. It can not and will never be that I or anyone within the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition will seek to belittle the legacy of the former President,” he stated.
“This publication is clearly motivated by hatred and ill-will and I call on the public to disregard it. It is only a deranged person who will seek to belittle the contribution of former President J.A. Kufuor to the development of this country.
Indeed, the New Patriotic Party(NPP) has proven through Ex-president Kufuor and President Akufo-Addo that it is the only party truly committed to and capable of delivering development to Ghana through the many policies it has implemented.”
“I advice the writer, the newspaper, their paymasters and sponsors from within the National Democratic Congress to rather apply themselves and expend their resources on discussing and resolving the obvious cracks, bickering and divisions within their ranks as evidenced by the publication of a book by one of the advisors-in-chief to their Flagbearer John Mahama denigrating their Founder.”
“Again, I call on the good people of Ghana to treat the said publication and its content with the greatest contempt it deserves. It is everything journalism is not,” he stated.
By Melvin Tarlue