Former President Kufuor has for the first time defended and sought to explain and clarify his party flagbearer\u2019s \u2018all-die-be-die\u2019 slogan which snowballed into a huge political controversy and generated intense media discussion a few months back.<\/p>\n
Mr. Kufuor told Hot FM, an Accra based radio station on Wednesday June 29 that the slogan used by Nana Akufo-Addo in Koforidua, was gravely distorted and misconstrued as a call to violence.<\/p>\n
Speaking in his native Akan dialect, the Former President said the phrase was nowhere near an incitement to violence as has been explained by political opponents probably to score cheap political points.<\/p>\n
The Former President explained that the slogan was meant to merely demonstrate how, in Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s view, perceived weaklings could, on the spur of the moment, block up all consequences and muster courage to face and confront their assailants squarely out of frustrations of being persistently bullied.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018All die be die\u2019 is an instantaneously courageous revolt against bullies by perceived weaklings who may have gotten to their wits end as a result of having suffered perennial bullying at the hands of bullies. I think that should be a normal human practice. We can\u2019t allow any one person to hold us eternally hostage when that person doesn\u2019t even have our welfare at heart. They must be made to know their limit. It is important that Ghanaians clearly understand what the slogan \u2018all die be die\u2019 means\u201d Mr. Kufuor said.<\/p>\n
In the early days of the \u2018all-die-be-die\u2019 controversy, Mr Kufuor deferred media comments on the matter to Nana Addo when he was mobbed by Journalists for his views, after he had come out of a meeting with President Mills that discussed issues to deal with heightened tension in the country at the time.<\/p>\n
Some political pundits said former President Kufuor\u2019s posture at that instant indicated that he disagreed with the use of that slogan by Nana Akufo Addo. Others argued to the contrary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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