{"id":275737,"date":"2011-02-08T22:19:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T22:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=51523"},"modified":"2011-02-08T22:19:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T22:19:52","slug":"pratt-no-one-can-silence-me-not-even-fonkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/08\/pratt-no-one-can-silence-me-not-even-fonkar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratt: No-One Can Silence Me; Not Even FONKAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_27000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27000\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-27000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/10\/26\/mrs-rawlings-can%e2%80%99t-be-president\/konadu_rawlings2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27000\" title=\"konadu_rawlings2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/konadu_rawlings2.jpg\" alt=\"Konadu Rawlings\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings <\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nManaging Editor of the <strong>Insight<\/strong> newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has spurned threats by the Friends of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings (<strong>FONKAR<\/strong>)  to open the skeletons in his (Pratt\u2019s) cupboard should he continue to  undermine the presidential credentials of the former First Lady,  pointing out that the decision to elect someone for the office of  President is not the preserve of the pro-Rawlings group nor anyone else  in the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) party.<br \/>\nHe has therefore vowed not to be cowed into silence over the issue of who wants to be President of the country.<br \/>\n\u201cI  am a citizen of this country and every member of this country ought to  have an interest in who becomes president of the country. This is not a  preserve of the NDC, FONKAR or any other political party,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nFONKAR,  in a rather strong statement issued on Monday, flayed the Insight  newspaper Managing Editor for consistently maligning Mrs. Rawlings  before and after she expressed interest to contest President Mills for  the NDC flagbearership.<br \/>\nThe pro-Rawlings group described Mr. Pratt as a self-styled spokesperson of President Mills.<br \/>\n\u201cIn  his usual predilection of betraying the truth and denigrating pillars  of society, this ingrate mounted a sermon of preaching vile doctrines  which seems logic only on his head and said that he would do anything in  his power to prevent Nana Konadu from becoming a President of Ghana.<br \/>\nWe  take offence to the ill-informed and ill-conceived commentary by this  tainted politician who wants to come across as a journalist. Should Mr  Pratt\u2019 populist brand of political rhetoric go unchallenged? We find  Pratt\u2019 belligerence, and his utterances on the former first lady, to be  very reckless and we are convinced that such unprovoked attack on Nana  Konadu could only be part of that grand scheme being orchestrated by the  Mills\u2019 administration to discredit the former first lady,\u201d FONKAR said.<br \/>\nBut in an interview with Shamima Muslim on <strong>Citi Eye Witness News<\/strong>,  the outspoken senior journalist denied all the accusations levelled  against him and dared FONKAR to bring it on. Mr. Pratt stressed that he  has never insulted Mrs. Rawlings, neither has he levelled any  allegations against her person, but explained that, he only expressed  reservations at the former First Lady\u2019s desire to lead the NDC in 2012  and subsequently become Ghana\u2019s president.<br \/>\n\u201c\u2026I never said I will  make sure Nana does not become president of this country; rather, I  stated that if I had my own way, I will do whatever it takes to prevent  her from becoming president of this country,\u201d he clarified.<br \/>\nTo him, the statement by FONKAR has greatly confirmed his earlier held fears.<br \/>\n\u201cHow  can anybody issue such a vitriolic statement against another citizen  simply for saying that he is not in support of one candidate\u2026if this is  the kind of campaign they are going to wage then my goodness, they  shouldn\u2019t even start at all\u2026\u2026.,\u201d he counseled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has spurned threats by the Friends of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings (FONKAR) to open the skeletons in his (Pratt\u2019s) cupboard should he continue to undermine the presidential credentials of the former First Lady, pointing out that the decision to elect someone for the office of President is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pratt: No-One Can Silence Me; 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