Ade Coker condemns Attivor

The Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has condemned former Transport Minister Dzifa Attivor over tribalistic comments she made recently.

At a recent NDC rally in the Volta Region, the party’s stronghold, Mrs Attivor, who resigned a couple of months ago in connection with an overpriced bus branding scandal, told party members to ensure the NPP does not return to power, otherwise, an Akufo-Addo government will embark on a jailing spree of Ewes just as former President John Kufuor did during his tenure, citing the imprisonment of former government officials Victor Selormey and Dan Abodakpi to buttress her point.

The comment has been widely condemned by former President Jerry John Rawlings, the National Peace Council, the NDC’s Volta regional arm, and the NPP, as well as by many Ghanaians on social media.

The latest to join the fray is Mr. Coker, who feels that the remark by Mrs. Attivor is in bad taste.

He, however, charged various parties to shun political vindictiveness when they gain the mandate to govern the nation.

“It was not properly made and the understanding has come out wrongly. By narrowing it down, I think it was not proper and that she can retract that statement,” he indicated.

He further stated that: “As a country, any government that comes to power should not be vindictive. Over the years, since the fall of Kwame Nkrumah, we have practised this vindictiveness.

So, probably, the broader statement that she was trying to make, she has narrowed it down to the Ewes. I do not agree to the narrowness of the statement that she made, but in the broader perspective, she is drawing our attention not to be vindictive,” he told Joy FM in an interview on Wednesday, April 27.