[contextly_sidebar id=”HEHnP5nhCYYesN7T8PVD29k6yT6IIbyw”]He believes that\u00a0Oti Bless’ conduct is comparable to that of the jailed host and panelists<\/strong><\/a><\/span> of Accra-based radio station, Montie FM, who made their contemptuous\u00a0comments on the same programme.<\/p>\n “I suspect the Chief Justice, listening to this mockery of an apology, would be wondering what exactly came over him. He\u2019s suggesting that he was ordered to apologise,” Franklin Cudjoe said on Citi FM<\/strong>‘s news analysis programme, The Big Issue.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n “If he isn\u2019t jailed, then we should take out the Montie three. The Montie gang of bandits, did the same thing on the same platform and also apologized.”<\/p>\n Oti Bless’ apology on Friday\u00a0followed a directive from the Speaker for deliberations over his nomination to be put on hold until he apologised for the comments he made.<\/p>\n “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,” he said in an interview with Eyewitness News<\/strong> host Richard Dela Sky.<\/p>\n Oti Bless stated that\u00a0he had received advice from the Speaker of Parliament and the Majority leader, Alban Bagbin, prompting him to issue the public apology.<\/p>\n Franklin Cudjoe,\u00a0who has been a stern critic<\/span><\/strong><\/a> of Oti Bless asserted that the apology had been forced from Oti Bless and that the legislator hadn’t meant it.<\/p>\n “I don\u2019t wish evil for anybody but we have to make examples of people who supposedly are representing us. Oit Bless must be jailed. Oti Bless has not shown any remorse as far as I am concerned. He is saying that he was directed or advised [to apologise] so he himself doesn\u2019t believe it, he said.<\/p>\n “He must be jailed otherwise the Montie Three may have to be given some pardon”<\/p>\n I was misled<\/strong><\/p>\n Oti Bless explained that he had been ‘misled’ to make the comments he did adding that he was carried away by the moment.<\/p>\n “I was misled in a way as a young guy with youthful exuberance, you can understand. That is not my nature, that’s not how I was \u00a0brought up, I’ll plead that it won’t happen again. This will be the last time. They should kindly forgive me in the name of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” he said<\/p>\n Parliament deferred the nomination of Oti Bless on Thursday stating that consultations had not yet been completed.<\/p>\n The Nkwanta North MP’s nomination for the position came under scrutiny following his performance at his vetting which many described as unconvincing.<\/p>\n His nomination has been questioned further by revelations that he had made some derogatory comments about the Chief Justice, Georgina Woode on same\u00a0Montie FM programme which the two jailed panelists and radio host<\/strong><\/a><\/span> had made death threats on Supreme Court justices.<\/p>\n Oti Bless is on record as having accused the Chief Justice<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of \u2018conniving\u2019 with the opposition NPP in an attempt to reverse the election results in 2008 and in 2012 which saw the late John Evans Atta Mills and John Dramani Mahama elected into office respectively.<\/p>\n![\"John](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Oti-Bless-451x330-1.png\")
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