A top shot of the Peoples National Convention (PNC) has urged the government to fire Ms. Elizabeth Ohene, Government Spokesperson on Media Relations (office of the President), for her gross incompetence in the handling of the $46,000 saga.
In an interview with The Crusading Guide at the PNC Headquarters in Accra, Mr Ahmed Ramadan, the party's top notch, noted that "the Minister of State (Media Relations) had deceived the general public by issuing statements and misinforming Radio Stations that Mallam Ali Yusif ex-Minister for Youth and Sports, had tendered in his resignation letter which the President was considering, while no such thing had happened".
Ahmed Ramadan (Vice Treasurer of the PNC) pointed out that the President should have taken a more sober position on the issue rather than the way it went about it.
Ahmed Ramadan intimated that Mallam Ali Yusif Isa was invited by the President and told to resign, "but Mallam felt that by resigning he would be admitting to a guilt of an offence he has not committed so he said he was not going to resign".
Mallam Ali, according to Mr Ramadan, told Elizabeth Ohene that he was conducting his own investigations and would come out with results convincing to the President.
Ramadan explained that after Mrs. Ohene had prepared the statement, which Mallam vehemently disapproved of, the latter told her (Ms. Ohene) that "I have not resigned and I don't want to be reported as having resigned".
"In spite of that, Lizie came on air and announced the resignation of the ex-Minister, adding that the President did not believe in the excuse given by the ex-Minister and so deemed it fit to ask him to resign", the PNC Treasurer added.
