The former Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National
Democratic Congress (NDC), Allotey Jacobs has served notice that he will
deal with the National Communication Officer of the party Sammy Gyamfi
over the latter’s disrespectful behaviour.
The obviously livid leading and outspoken member of the NDC said on
Asempa Fm’s Ekosii sen program monitored by MyNewsGh.com that he will
not speak for the party unless the issues being discussed relate to
former President John Dramani Mahama.
“I was with you (host) in the studio when their National Communication
Officer Sammy Gyemfi sent a text message that I don’t speak for the NDC.
So you expect me to speak for NDC? That small boy sitting there…Look
the time has even come for me to deal with him,” he said.
Mr Allotey Jacobs has been criticized largely by Members of the NDC over
his recent defence of President Nana Akufo Addo particularly on matters
of corruption. He is reported to have said that the President is not
corrupt as suggested by his party. A position many say is divergent from
the position of the NDC.
But he insisted that his defence of the President does not mean he in bed with the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
“The same NDC communication team has destroyed my image. We have friends
in the NPP and we know people who are eating from the hands of the NPP
and they will come on radio and be speaking rubbish to look as if they
are defending NDC. We know them and they should know that we are friends
and we have been with them for long. I don’t deny friendship. If people
think that I’ll come and sit on radio and insult Nana Akufo-Addo I
won’t do it,” he added.
In the view of the former regional Chairman, the new generation of
Communicators of the NDC do not know how much persons like him toiled to
build the party.
He challenged the party communications team leadership to delete his
name from their list of recognised communicators because he is not
interested in being one.
