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Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr has asked President John Mahama to withdraw the appointment of John Oti Bless as a Deputy Minister.

Describing him as 'a baby with sharp teeth' Kweku Baako says if one listens critically to what Oti Bless said, he "is worse than the three gentlemen (Montie 3)"

This comment follows an emergence of an audio which had Oti Bless verbally attacking the Supreme Court on the same Montie FM ‘Pampaso’ programme. According to sources, the deputy minister appointee was in the studio when the Montie 3 made those ‘contemptuous comments’.

Oti Bless in the audio accused the Chief Justice of “conniving” with the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in an attempt to reverse the election results in 2008 and in 2012 among other allegations.

Parliament subsequently suspended his approval and the Speaker of Parliament ordered him to offer an apology to the Chief Justice before any further consideration of his nomination for the Deputy Minister slot.

Speaking to the issue on Joy FM’s news file programme, Saturday, Kweku Baako said “he (Oti Bless) “is damn lucky to have escaped the contempt trial. He is a baby with sharp teeth... As an appointee of government, if you heard what he said, you will be shocked. The president must withdraw his appointment. His is worse than the three gentlemen."

Nonetheless, the managing editor believes Oti Bless should be forgiven since he has apologised.

Oti Bless apologised to the Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood and members of the judiciary for derogatory comments saying: “I wish to sincerely state that I am really sorry for everything that has happened. Let me use this opportunity to render an unqualified apology to the Chief Justice who is my mother and the entire Judiciary, judges, Parliament, good people of Ghana and my constituents.”