{"id":49079,"date":"2014-09-19T06:34:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T06:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=49079"},"modified":"2014-09-19T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T10:46:55","slug":"im-not-fighting-kufour-anane-lied-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/09\/im-not-fighting-kufour-anane-lied-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m not fighting Kufour, Anane lied – Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nana Akufo-Addo, a New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, has condemned comments made by Dr Richard Anane which implied that he [Nana Addo] was the cause of the seeming friction between\u00a0him and ex-President John Kufuor.<\/p>\n
He described the comment as “aimed solely at rewriting history based on fabrications they have been manufactured.”<\/p>\n
A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Richard Anane during \u00a0Alan Kyeremanten’s\u00a0campaign launch said, “in 1998, Nana Akufo-Addo sought to force the elected flagbearer of the party, John Agyekum Kufuor, to step down for him<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.”<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”H3WjBckVFjzT530xvsINm2bHq5esB73C”]According to him, Nana Addo\u2019s team approached the party leadership with the reason that John Kufuor was not in good health therefore, leading the party is such a condition could have dire consequences.<\/p>\n He implied that the move back then created “tension and enmity” between the two till now.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a press released signed by Eugene Arhin, Press Secretary\u00a0 to Nana Akufo-Addo, stated that \u201cfor the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state that the statements being peddled are wholly untrue.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThese attempts to rewrite history and fabricate issues from 16 years ago, hopefully to prop up the campaign of a presidential aspirant, are reprehensible and must be condemned in no uncertain terms,\u201d the released stated.<\/p>\n A former Mayor of Accra, Nii Adjiri Blankson has also asked supporters of the NPP to treat \u00a0Richard Anane’s comments as \u201ca bag of rubbish<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n