The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) would require yet another propaganda masterpiece like the one it put together when the Esseku kick-back scandal rocked it, to be able to coil another damning outbursts from the party's popular serial caller, commonly known as Appiah Stadium.
A couple of Ministers and the Chief of Staff could have been sweating in their air-conditioned offices yesterday as the serial caller mentioned their names on air, in matters that clearly vindicate cynics who were left in no doubt that people in high offices were likely to engage in scandalous acts, courtesy the nation's qualification to the World Cup.
He revealed that the government sponsored 150 party activists to Germany for the World Cup tournament. The sponsorship package involved ticketing, accommodation and personal spending money of 500 euros each.
At least, the names of Deputy Minster, O.B Amoah, Chief of Staff, Kwadwo Mpiani, and Education, Sports and Science Minister, Paapa Owusu Ankomah, have been given as those who were at least, aware of the sponsorship package, which the serial caller said was by the government and not the NPP as a party.
Appiah Stadium, a semi-literate, who has gotten himself close to people occupying top political positions through the good use of his oratorical command over the Twi language on radio phone-in programmes, was clearly peeved for his exclusion from the government sponsored group.
He cited the Deputy Sports Minister, the Chief of Staff and one Wofa Kwame Boateng, from the private residence of President Kufuor, as those who orchestrated his exclusion from the sponsored group.
The NPP inside further expressed the conviction that his exclusion was motivated by certain revelations he made on his return from a similar sponsored trip form Egypt during the African Cup of Nations in January this year.
Appiah told Ghanaians via the media that some top officials travelled with their girlfriends to Egypt during the African Nations' tournament.
"I was around when O.B Amoah told Paapa Owusu Ankomah to exclude me because when I came back from Egypt, I told Ghanaians that top people had gone with their girlfriends to Egypt," he stated to buttress the legitimacy of his convictions on why he was not included in the Germany sponsorship.
The serial caller could not do any good to his idol, Nana Akufo-Addo, when in his attempt to covertly campaign for the presidential bid of the Foreign Affairs Minister as a 'thank you' gesture to the Minister, he embroiled the Minister in the whole saga.
He told listeners that it was the Foreign Minister who facilitated his trip to Germany by providing him with money and his letterhead that facilitated his visa acquisition.
The NPP man apologized to the former President Fl. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings and the National Democratic Congress for all that he had said against them.
