Former presidential staffer, Kojo Adu Asare has accused President Akufo-Addo of “bad faith” over the controversy generated by former President Mahama’s request to remain in a state bungalow after the expiration of his tenure in office.
The former president has requested to keep his Cantonments official residence as part of his retirement package – a request which has attracted widespread criticism from a section of the public who believe the move violates the Transition Act.
In an interview with Montie FM in Accra, Mr Adu Asare said Mr Mahama’s request was deliberately leaked to the media to portray him as a villain in the eyes of Ghanaians.
According to the former Adentan MP, the decision to permit Mr Mahama to stay in that bungalow was arrived at after both men had a one-on-one meeting, before it was followed up with an official request.
“And right after that, government officials decided to leak details of the meeting to the media to the extent that the request letter was splashed on Facebook.
“For me, that was the handy-work of the president and his appointees. It was deliberately done to incite public outrage against Mr Mahama,” he added.
Mr Adu Asare insists the letter was purposely leaked to divert public attention from President Akufo-Addo’s plagiarism scandal.
“It was a rescue mission they embarked upon and they have succeeded in doing that. They wanted to divert attention of the public from the president’s gaffe at his inaugural speech,” he added.
Meanwhile, the former president has rescinded his request to keep that official state bungalow in question.
In a statement addressed to the new government on Tuesday, Mr Mahama said, he found it important to move out of the building to avoid marring the spirit of cooperation between the two sides of the transition teams.
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Honestly i dont care even if you are right Mr Adu Asare, but your reasoning put forward was a much better one than the president plainly rejecting Mahama's request and saying NO. After all the massive scandals, if you dont have a house in Ga, then go back to Bole Bamboi wai.
Please Mr. Adu ASare, be truthful. This issue about President Mahama requesting to stay in the bungalow came to the public even before the inauguration of Nana Addo so how can it be used to cover up a so called gaffe. I heard this request way back on Oman Fm so please say the truth. You are saying President Nana Addo has acted in bad faith forgetting that it is the Ex president who acted in bad faith. How could he even go in for negotiation for a residence after signing and agreeing to a committee report which stipulates outgoing presidents should not be given residence by the state. If this act of President Mahama is not in bad faith then i dont know what is it. You people intentionally set a trap for Nana Addo and thank God that the Ghanaian people has helped him to dislodge the trap.
Is this mandrill still alive?I pray the independent prosecutor's office is set up asap.we are all rubbing our hands with glee to see this th13f and others like him come and explain why a gentleman who assisted the national team's caterers to procure,pepper,tomato puree,kako and other foodstuffs were paid $20,000.
Is Adu asare referring to ghanaians, media or NPP as DOGS, I mean who is he calling dogs? he should be very careful the type of words he choices because we are not fulls in this country.
masa gerrrout there! is it a bad thing if the letter got to the media? you ndc pple dont learn. you have to ask yourself if the decision mahama took in the first place was right. you just jave to stop this sycophancy thing. Kojo Adu no wonder you condone on corrupt practices so you are in support of mahama. these are the very things you guys did and lost yet you still dont learn. does the bungalow belongs to ghanaians or the ndc???? so what is the big deal if the letter was made known to ghanaians???? stop f000ling kojo adu you have no brains
OH. I THOUGHT THIS MAN WAS BEING LOOKED AFTER BY ONE OF THE STAND BY DOCTORS ADVOCATED BY ANOTHER RUN AWAY SYCOPHANT,KWASI PRATT BUT LOOK AT HIM CRAWLING FROM UNDER THE STONE WHERE HE WAS HIDING AFTER HIS PAA,PAA ON ASEMPA RADIO AS IF HE WAS GOD. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL THIS WHILE AFTER THE ELECTIONS? JUST SHUP UP AND WORRY ABOUT YOUR RESPONSES WHEN YOU ARE HAULED BEFORE THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR. YOU NEVER STOPPED INSULTING PRESIDENT AKUFO ADDO BY CALLING HIM ALL SORTS OF NAME, SAYING THAT HE CAN NOT BE PRESIDENT IN GHANA AS IF YOU, A MERE YOU,KOJO ADU ASARE, OWN GHANA. YET YOU TURN ROUND AND ASK HIM FOR FAVOUR. AFTER ALL THE MONIES YOU PEOPLE HAVE S-T=O-L-E=N FROM THE STATE, YOU EXPECT US TO HOUSE THIS ALI BABA. NO, NO, NO IT WILL NOT HAPPEN TODAY,IT WILL NOT HAPPEN TOMORROW SO GO TO HELL, KOJO ADU ASARE.
So these NDC attacks DOGS will not lie down and think about themselves and are still defending this Bole Northner thiff Jon Mahama ; what is Adu Asare talking about ; does this full think awarding of state proerties to ex-Presidents lies in the hands of a sitting President;this are state properties not Nana Addo 's properties ; for me Jon Mahama was caught with his pants down !!!!!!; this ***barred word*** son of a thiff thought the NDC will win and therefore thought he would stay there for another 4 years and later on buy the place for his family but he lost the elections ; Nana Addo is smarter than Jon Mahama because Nana Addo had to play along with their lutters and share charter but Nana Addo knew it was wrong and knew there will be uproar about his request but just pretended to agree; the sad part is about this Otumfuo Kweku Dua ; why did he not tell Jon Mahama that his request was untenable if he was an honest man ; why did the Otumfuo condone such request ; Otumfuo Kweku Dua should understand that Nana Addo is not corrupt and will not condone such a stilling besides why did not Jon Mahama purse a request to house Kuffour but he wants to stay in a government properties for free ; FROM HENCE ANY BODY SEEKING A PRESIDENTIAL POSITION SHOULD HAVE BUILT HIS OWN HOUSE BEFORE STANDING FOR THE PRESIDENCY !!!!!! BECAUSE THIS TOOOO MUCH !!!!!!!
well said, the president should have even thrown that ***barred word*** at the refuse dump area. greedddy man. when Nana said he was born into a rich family so he will not stealllll Ghanaians money they made a case out of it and insulted him, now is clear to Ghanaians how Mahama wanted to destroy Ghana. even the state property he wants it, sooo sad.
They had a one-on-one meeting so what? Are both of them sole generators of the tax-payers cash? why have a transition act if they could have a bilateral in clear breech of the act. Such elements!!
MR MAN WHY WON'T YOU SIT DOWN AND THINK OF YOUR SELF? YOUR BRAZIL CORRUPT ISSUE WILL BE INVESTIGATE,SO KINDLY KEEP MUTE AND THINK OF YOURSELF. ONE ARE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE LEADED DNC TO OPPOSITION. BIG MAN WITHOUT COMMON SENSE.