The immediate past President of Ghana, J. A Kufuor, has reacted swiftly to former president JJ Rawlings� assertion that he is the best leader Ghana has ever had in the country�s political history.
Mr. Kufuor, who ruled from 2000 to 2008, said Rawlings� comment to South Africa-based television network, eTV smacks of arrogance and should have allowed Ghanaians to rate him.
Ex-president Kufuor popularly known as �the Gentle Giant� told Joy FM he will not mark himself since �good beads do not speak� (Anwenneε pa nkasa), an Akan proverb that means �quality does not promote itself. �
Kufuor said: �Let the people of Ghana say so [that Rawlings is the best] otherwise it becomes a boastful statement. �
�I am not prone to boasting, I don�t like that. �
�� Let the people of Ghana say, over this period, this is the best leader we have had, I will not say I am the best, I won�t say that; it should be the people I led,� the joint winner of the 2011 World Food Programme Prize stated.
Former president Rawlings had earlier told a South African television station that during his nearly 20-year rule he empowered state institutions such as the judiciary and Ghanaians in general among others to make him the best ever leader of Ghana.
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