Former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has described the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) press conference following the airbus bribery scandal as needless.
To him, the NPP alleging that the government official 1 cited in the United Kingdom and United States court documents in the Airbus scandal was former President and NDC candidate John Dramani Mahama was neither here nor there.
“The NPP press conference about the airbus issue was needless and uncalled for. Let us respect our leaders whether past or present,” he said in an interview on Adom FM’s morning show Dwaso Nsem on Tuesday.
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He said he would always dispute the fact that former President John Kufuor, President Nana Akufo-Addo, former Presidents Jerry John Rawlings and Mahama are corrupt and therefore will never support any verbal attack on Mr Mahama, who is his flagbearer and former President.
“The most painful thing in this world is to accuse someone wrongly or malign a truthful person. A person who has become a President before and now wants to come back and you (NPP) keep bringing such allegations against him. I don’t think you (NPP) are being fair to Mr Mahama,” he noted.
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“For me I stand with President Mahama. He is not corrupt and can’t be corrupted,” he added.
The NPP has dared Mr Mahama to publicly speak to confirm or deny his involvement in the Airbus scandal rather than hide behind a statement from the former Attorney-General, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong.
Addressing the media, Director of Communications of the NPP, Yaw Buaben Asamoah, argued Mr Mahama was unfit to return to the Presidency because of the allegations.