The New Patriotic Party has challenged Broadcaster, Adakabre Frimpong Manso to produce evidence that its flag bearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, threatened his life or retract his allegations and render an apology to Nana Akuffo-Addo.
Adakabre is reported to have said in an interview on Accra-based Joy fm that “…Nana Addo abused and threatened me, I was so sad and scared but I kept quiet because I didn’t want to be the fall guy through which something happens and they would say it is because of Adakabre so I kept quiet. I was afraid because…I was told to the face that you will be killed at a specific date, I have all the evidence, I can substantiate them…I have everything on my phone, I have kept the phones and I would be willing to show it to anybody who wants to see them.”
But in a press release, the New Patriotic Party described his allegation as “completely false, unfounded and mischievously put out all in the continuous attempts to tarnish the image of Nana Akufo-Addo and paint him as an intolerant and violent person.”
The statement further mentioned that it is not surprising that a known Akufo-Addo hater, like Adakabre, would join this NDC-led propaganda bandwagon aimed at denting the image of Nana Akufo-Addo indicating that threats on the lives of people is not part of their flag bearer’s politics.
The statement indicated that the flagbearer had in 2014 confronted Adakabre to express his displeasure about the treatment meted out to him by the show host on his show adding that this confrontation was done in the full glare of the public.
“Nana Akufo-Addo also expressed his displeasure about the treatment being meted out to him on a daily basis by Adakabre on his show in April 2014, at the residence of the late Alhaji Aliu Mahama in Tamale, when the pair met. This was not done in private, but in the full glare of other persons present at the time. Nana again, confronted him at a press soiree in his home at Nima. At no point, in this discourse, did Nana Akufo-Addo make threats on the life of Adakabre Frimpong Manso.”
The statement therefore dared Adakabre to publish the evidence to support the allegations he has made but if he fails to do so, the NPP demands nothing short of a retraction of the baseless and false allegations and an unconditional apology to Nana Akufo-Addo.
By: Offei-Akoto Ayeh | A1RADIOONLINE.com | GHANA
