Obed Asamoah is ungrateful-K.T Hammond

The former Deputy Minister of Energy in the erstwhile NPP administration, Hon. Kobina Tahir Hammond has described former Chairman of the NDC, Dr. Obed Yao Asamoah and other former members who have declared their intention to return to the party as ungrateful and lacking in moral uprightness.

According to K.T Hammond, Dr Obed Asamoah, Goosie Tanoh (leader of the New Reform Party) and Captain (Rtd) Kojo Tsikata left the NDC because former president Jerry Rawlings chose and stood by president Mills as the candidate to lead the party even though many of the party’s members rejected Professor Mills so he cannot understand why these same people have returned to the person they fought against.

“I don’t like Rawlings but to side line and insult him because he disagrees with President Mills who he introduced into politics is the height of disrespect,” he said.

Speaking on Adom FM’s current affairs programme, Dea Me Hunu on Wednesday, he described Dr. Asamoah as one of the politicians who benefitted hugely from former President Rawlings’ administration having worked as the Foreign Affairs minister, Attorney General and Minister of Justice so his turning against the former president is an indication of lack of morality.

K.T. Hammond accused Dr. Asamoah of double standards citing an incident when Dr. Asamoah insisted on maintaining the criminal libel laws in the law books even going to the extent of saying repealing the laws will be “over his dead body”.

He also added President Mills to the list of ungrateful people expressing his shock at the president for condoning verbal attacks against the former president despite knowing that it was the same president Rawlings who held his hand, coached him and nurtured him in politics.

He said it is unfair for President Mills and his supporters to humiliate Mr. Rawlings and expect him to campaign for him in the 2012 elections and emphasized that the NDC cannot survive without Rawlings.
K.T. Hammond advised the president to leave the NDC and form his own party if he believes he is popular and grow a party to the level of the National Democratic Congress.

Responding to calls for the NPP to rather focus on their own party and the challenges within, the Adansi Asokwa MP emphasized that though they remain focused there was the need to draw attention to the problems in the NDC to demonstrate to the electorate that the party has lost control over their own internal affairs and cannot resolve the challenges facing the nation.

The Member of Parliament for Ejumako Enyan Assiam and former Coordinator of Get Atta Mills Endorsed (GAME) in the Central Region, Ato Forson challenged the NPP to ‘mind their own business’ adding that they (NPP) have more factions within their party than the NDC.

He described Nana Addo’s central regional tour as ‘playful’ adding that he is only visiting his own NPP members and cannot win any additional votes in the region.

He said the concerns raised by the Konadu 2012 campaign team are baseless but was quick to add that the party was committed to resolving the minor differences that have emerged after the Sunyani congress.

Story: Afia Pokuaa/Adom News/Ghana