Alhassan Suhuyini
Alhassan Suhuyini, onetime host of Alhaji and Alhaji, a political talk show on Radio Gold and the parliamentary candidate in Tamale North Constituency for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has observed that the two most difficult places to prove the New Patriotic Party (NPP) wrong in Ghana is the media and court.
According to him, the NPP seem to get its way through the media and the courts than the NDC, and thus described it as dangerous.
Citing President Mahama’s “One House, One Meter” promise to the people of Abura and Vice President’s statement on “provoke one, get two free” as examples, Suhuyini explained that the media twists statements by members of the NDC, thereby subjecting them to public ridicule.
For example, using Kennedy Agyapong and Asamoah Boateng’s cases, he posited that though it was the NDC government that charged them to court on separate offenses, it yielded no results, thereby given credence to his suspicion.
The NPP lost the popular Election Petition case, but Alhaji Suhunyini believes, the NPP had their way to have gotten the “frivolous” case travel that long.
Speaking as one of the panel members on Metro Television’s Good Morning Ghana on Thursday, the MP aspirant said that was the impression he got from events which have unfolded even though he knew people may not agree with him.
“That is the impression created from unfolding events and it may be wrong but I’m saying it for everyone to be put on alert so that we correct it”, he stated.
He admonished the media and courts to be fair and have the national interest at heart in discharging work in their line of duty to avoid such impression.
Egbert Faibaille, the other panel member did not take likely to the word frivolous and contended that it was the same case which brought up ‘striking’ recommendations which have caused reforms in most of the country’s electoral processes.
Responding to the issue of the discharge of Asamoah Boateng and Kennedy Agyapong, Mr. Faibaille, a lawyer by profession and an NPP member stated that, charging someone to court does not mean the person is automatically going to be jailed.
