2012 elections is not about wee or cocaine – Sir John

Sir John

The General Secretary of the main opposition party, New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kojo Owusu Afriyie popularly known as Sir John has said that the 2012 elections would not be based on wee or cocaine.

According to him although leaked diplomatic cables reported Nana Akufo Addo as being a drug addict, it has no negative effect on the NPP because Ghanaians are matured beyond such malicious allegations.

Sir John says, the party is rather concentrating on providing Ghanaians with jobs, good roads and portable water when given power again.

The information contained in the wikileaks' reports has quoted a conversation between seasoned journalist Kwesi Pratt Junior and an official from the US Embassy linking Nana Akufo-Addo to wee smoking; a report Kwesi Pratt has refused to comment on but has rather charged Nana Addo too clear his name of the wee smoking allegation.

Speaking on Asempa Fm's “Ekosii Sen” on Tuesday, Mr Owusu Afriyie stated that since 2007 there have been several allegations about Nana Akufo-Addo being associated with drugs but upon all the allegations Nana Addo was able to win President Mills in the first round during the 2008 elections, indicating that those allegations did not have any effect on the NPP.

Lawyer Owusu Afriyie said that Kwesi Pratt, whom the report said made the allegations, says he does not recollect describing Nana Akufo Addo as being associated with drugs adding if the NDC want to use it as a propaganda tool; it is up to them.

“It will not have any effect on the NPP party. The election is not about wee or cocaine” he stressed.

Sir John said Nana Akufo-Addo does not take into consideration reports by the Wikileaks because he neither smokes wee nor sniff cocaine.

He also touched President Mills' alleged sickness as revealed in the Wikileaks reports.

He said President Mills should come clean about his health and give the right information to the people of Ghana since he is a public figure and the Constitution demands of him to do so.

In his assertion, the President must be able to explain to Ghanaians whether he is suffering from sinus or throat cancer as stated in the Wikileaks reports.

He said the Mills government is ineffective in governing the country because of his health complications and that has affected the development of the country therefore, as he put it “if President Mills tells the truth about his health, Ghanaians will pray for him to be healed”.

Sir John who is embarking on a tour to Tamale in the Northern region emphasised that the Nana Akufo-Addo's topmost priority is to provide Ghanaians with good standard of living as well as an improved health and education.