Away from the inquisitive eyes of most people only last week, a non-title fight took place at the ruling NDC Secretariat at Kokomlemle-Accra between no less a person than the chairman of the Party, old Dr. Kwabena Adjei in the BLUE CORNER, and young Hamidu Akamba ‘Pacquiao’ a deputy National Organizer who was in the RED CORNER and said to wield a dangerous staccato of uppercuts, one of which fell the chairman like a tree cut down by the sharp ends of the chainsaw operator.
By the time rescuers pretended to be stepping in to separate the mismatch, the chairman had soaked a barrage of telling blows and was understandably wincing in great pain, for daring to dismiss former President J.J. Rawlings’ prattles on ruling President JEA Mills as senseless, uncalled-for and immaterial. Amateur reporters at the bout scene say, Dr. Adjei had just been told the latest euphemisms of the former President and was reacting on reflex, when Akamba cut him down sending him reeling to the floor like an accident waiting to happen, as onlookers displayed mixed feelings over the incident.
Last week the NDC were busy talking about dragging Akamba to the a disciplinary Committee of the Party for appropriate sanctions to be applied, to serve as a deterrent to all who may want to visit ‘machoistic’ tendencies on old men in positions of responsibilities. The idea is that after all even though both are essentially made of hairs, THE EYEBROW PRECEDED THE BEARD in the scheme of things?
When reached at Press time for comment affable National Organizer Mr. Yaw Boateng Gyan, told The Sun that Akamba has since render an unqualified apology to the Chairman Dr. Kwabena Adjei and he has accepted it in good fate. He said even though he was not around he was later informed of a hectic verbal exchange between Akamba and the Chairman during a meeting between the executives and the former president. He did not believed that his deputy slapped Dr.Kwabena Adjei. However he said since his deputy has realized his mistake and render apology that had been accepted in good fate by the chairman the party executives decided not to pursue the case to disciplinary committee level.
The paper learnt that some top NDC officials chose to play another angle of the story when they contacted the temperamentally short-fused lad’s father, a Justice J.B. Akamba president of the Ghana Magistrates & Judges Association and an APPEAL COURT judge to advice his son.
Inquisitive tongues were busy last week discussing how fashionable it has become for even Party members to malign President Rawlings at the flimsiest opportunity, whenever he chose to castigate the ruling government headed by President Mills. “But these latter-day-NPP-Sauls-turned-NDC-Pauls must know that they all rode on the shoulders of Rawlings to reach where they are today and so must not attempt to dismember the very hands that have fed them all these years”, a foot-soldier who claimed to have witnessed the ghastly scene told THE SUN.
