Former NPP Communications Director Paul Yandoh has stated that he feels insulted by President John Dramani Mahama’s description of him as “ignorant” over his comments on the deployment of soldiers for road construction.
Yandoh said he believes his earlier comments were reported to the President by Ashanti Regional Minister Dr Frank Amoakohene, although that is his own account of how Mahama came to know about the remarks.
“When I raise questions, I am told I am ignorant, which I know came from Amoakohene’s report,” he said in an interview with Kumasi-based Owia TV.
“The President himself said he heard a radio commentator questioning the deployment, and I was the one. I am convinced Amoakohene reported me to the President, leading him to call me ignorant,” he added.
Mahama had referred to a radio commentator as “ignorant” while speaking at the handover of the cleared right-of-way for the Accra-Kumasi Expressway. He defended the use of soldiers by pointing to their previous involvement in opening up the Afram Plains during the PNDC era.
Yandoh said he is now trying to identify the officials responsible for what he called the “politics of insult” so he can formally complain about the President’s remark.
“I am searching for the officials responsible for this politics of insult, because if I had insulted the President, I would have been arrested immediately. Why then should I be insulted without consequence?” he asked.
Yandoh maintained that he will not accept what he considers to be an attack on his dignity.
“I will not allow myself to be demeaned. I am deeply pained,” he said.
