J.J. Rawlings can't decide for himself – NPP

The Evening News says the NPP has stated that resettling the former President is not the business of the ex-President and his opposition NDC party but a constitutional obligation, which the new administration must fulfil.

It has therefore advised the NDC to stop issuing statements on the matter talking about the ex-president's wishes.

Speaking to the paper during an interview in Accra on Tuesday, Mr Dan Botwe, General Secretary of the party, said the Kufuor's government would not waste its time on unnecessary and unfruitful issues, which cannot improve the living conditions of Ghanaians through whom it captured power from the NDC.

Mr Botwe said, when the NDC was in power, it could not liberate Ghanaians from their impoverished status and now that the NPP was underlining the major problems and how to address them, they are unnecessarily making comments about the ex-President's settlement.

He said ex-President Rawlings' request to stay where his wife currently resides should not be considered serious adding, "this contravenes the constitution from sheltering the president. When his tenure of office "expires."

Mr Dan Botwe asked Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings to stop circulating information on her supposed ownership of the Ridge House where the ex-President is currently staying. "That house is for the state and there is no way she can claim ownership of the house since there is no evidence of her acquisition of the house," he said.