IGNORE JANTUAH'S CALL ON NDUOM - KOFI SABON (PAGE 16)

A leading member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Mr Clemence Asare, aka Kofi Sabon, has called on the public to ignore Mr Jantuah’s statement calling on the flag bearer of the party, Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, to clear himself at a competent court of jurisdiction before holding himself as the presidential aspirant of the CPP.
He said the statement was callous and “borders on madness” because no sane person could offer himself to a court without having committed any offence which was known to him.
Dr Nduom could only go before a competent court of jurisdiction to defend himself when an appropriate charge had been levelled against him, he said.
Mr Asare was speaking to the Daily Graphic in Ho in reaction to a press statement purportedly made by a founding father of the CPP, Mr F.A. Jantuah. in Kumasi last week.
According to Mr Asare, the allegation that Dr Nduom had a case before the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) was neither here nor there, adding that if Dr Nduom had really got a case before the SFO, it would have invited him or it would have taken the appropriate steps to bring him before a competent court of jurisdiction to enable him to defend himself.
Mr Asare said until that was done, Dr Nduom should be left in absolute peace to enable him to concentrate on his campaign to become the President of Ghana.
He said Dr Nduom was not a fugitive but had been in the country all along and so if his detractors felt he had a case to answer, they should approach it properly and avoid speculations.
He said after all people who had been found guilty and sentenced by a competent court of jurisdiction had been granted presidential pardon and were even enjoying more freedom than ordinary citizens who had not committed any crime against the state.
Mr Asare said Dr Nduom’s bid for the presidency must be supported by majority of Ghanaians because it was his (Mr Asare’s) candid opinion that at the present stage of the country’s development a dispassionate person who came from the minority in Parliament was most suitable for the presidency.
He cited Benin where an independent candidate was elected president and said it could happen in Ghana.
“This is where Dr Nduom becomes the most suitable among all the aspirants,” Mr Asare declared.