Former President John Dramani Mahama has denied insulting the managing director of the State Transport Corporation (STC),
Nana Akomea as the latter claims.
Mahama stated in a tweet in response to Nana Akomea’s assertion that he had insulted Akomea in any way, but that Akomea’s decision to mislead the public about ex-gratia was politically motivated.

“My friend Nana Akomea. I did not insult you. I know you know the difference between a lump sum ex-gratia payment and a monthly pension. Why you chose to misinform the public was because of politics.”
John Dramani Mahama

The former President made his remarks after State Transport Corporation (STC) executive director Nana Akomea criticized him on Saturday for disrespecting his detractors.

Nana Akomea Admonishes Mahama Not To Insult Others When Critiqued

In response to the former President John Dramani Mahama, the Managing Director of the State Transport Corporation (STC), Nana Akomea, claimed that politics had not ruined his sharp mind, as Mahama had opposed to.

According to Nana Akomea, Mahama’s propensity for belittling those who disagree with him is unbecoming of a man of his status. He stated that Mahama should quit insulting people, if he wants to be re-elected to the nation’s highest office.

The former Okaikwei South MP asked Mahama to find different ways to interact with his detractors in a Facebook post.

“Even if [ex] President Mahama disagrees with me, I am sad that he chose to lace his disagreement with insults to my person, by implying politics had caused me to lose my ‘fine mind’.

“The last time other citizens commented on this same sentiment of [former] President Mahama, he met them with similar insults, calling them ‘silly’. I urge [ex] President Mahama, that if he wants to be President of Ghana again, he should refrain from insulting citizens.”
Nana Akomea

According to Nana Akomea, “I assure him I am still his friend and I still have a fine mind.”

Last week, Nana Akomea encouraged the former president to exercise leadership and turn down any ex-gratia due to him during an interview on a radio program.

“So, you, [former] President Mahama, today if you claim you don’t believe in the ex-gratia, the ones that you have taken, we know that you have spent it already, so we can’t say that go and bring it.”

“But the challenge I am giving to him is that the ones he will be taking from this month May, he shouldn’t take it, he should stop taking the ex-gratia, the same way Togbe Afede stopped and returned his own, he should follow the same principle.”

Nana Akomea

The NDC flagbearer took to Twitter on Friday to respond to Nana Akomea’s appeal for him to quit taking ex-gratia payments from the government. “My friend Nana Akomea. Really sad what politics can do to a fine mind! I don’t take ex-gratia. I receive a monthly pension,” he said.