{"id":448857,"date":"2017-12-21T03:41:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T03:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/21\/i-didnt-advise-mills-mahama-kufuor\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T03:41:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T03:41:15","slug":"i-didnt-advise-mills-mahama-kufuor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/21\/i-didnt-advise-mills-mahama-kufuor\/","title":{"rendered":"I didn\u2019t advise Mills, Mahama \u2013 Kufuor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday, 21 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-21<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/77355521.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kufour Bola Ray Starr.jpeg\" title=\"Kufour Bola Ray Starr.jpeg\" width=\"295\" height=\"169\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Bola Ray interviews former president J.A.Kufour<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513827675_438_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Former president John Agyekum Kufuor has disclosed that he never had the chance to advise former presidents John Mills and John Mahama.<\/p>\n<p>This was because his relationship with the duo was on civil basis, he stated on Starr Chat Wednesday, December 20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Immediately after me came late president Mills. He was civil with me generally but perhaps the opportunity wasn\u2019t there for me to suggest that look at things this way or that way. Then president Mahama came very nice with me but again not much of an opportunity,\u201d he told Starr Chat host Bola Ray.<\/p>\n<p>When Bola Ray further enquired that \u201cso you didn\u2019t suggest anything to former president Mahama?\u201d the former president retorted \u201cwhat could I suggest? We as it were very civil\u2026we meet on a very friendly basis not politically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Late Mills took over from Kufour in 2009 after winning the 2008 elections. He was succeeded by Mahama following his untimely death.<\/p>\n<p>Kufour was president of Ghana from 7 January 2001 to 7 January 2009. He was also Chairperson of the African Union from 2007 to 2008.<\/p>\n<p>His victory over John Evans Atta Mills after the end of Jerry Rawlings\u2019 second term marked the first peaceful democratic transition of power in Ghana since independence in 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Kufuor\u2019s career has been spent on the liberal-democratic side of Ghanaian politics, in the parties descended from the United Gold Coast Convention and the United Party.<\/p>\n<p>He was a Minister in Kofi Abrefa Busia\u2019s Progress Party government during Ghana\u2019s Second Republic and a Popular Front Party opposition frontbencher during the Third Republic.<\/p>\n<p>In the Fourth Republic, he stood as the New Patriotic Party\u2019s candidate at the 1996 election, and then led it to victory in 2000 and 2004.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 24 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Thursday, 21 December 2017 Source: Starrfmonline.com 2017-12-21 Bola Ray interviews former president J.A.Kufour Former president John Agyekum Kufuor has disclosed that he never had the chance to advise former presidents John Mills and John Mahama. 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