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DAILY HERITAGE MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2017<br />
11<br />
Politics<br />
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have<br />
chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its<br />
foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are<br />
neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality<br />
— Desmond Tutu<br />
Don’t allow Appiah Stadium<br />
to cross carpet<br />
• Odike to NPP<br />
BY JONATHAN ADJEI<br />
FOUNDER AND<br />
leader of the United<br />
Progressive Party<br />
(UPP), Mr Akwasi<br />
Addai, popularly<br />
known as Odike, has<br />
warned the governing New Patriotic<br />
Party(NPP) to be wary<br />
of “hungry” Frank Kwaku Appiah,<br />
popularly called Appiah Stadium,<br />
a serial caller affiliated to<br />
opposition National Democratic<br />
Congress(NDC).<br />
According to Odike, Appiah<br />
Stadium is only scheming to sneak<br />
into NPP because he’s trapped in<br />
bread and butter issues, and doesn’t<br />
want to bear the brunt after his<br />
party-NDC went into opposition.<br />
“It’s about time he [Appiah<br />
Stadium] finds a job and stops his<br />
diabolic strategies in politics. I believe<br />
he’s not ready to be in opposition<br />
with the NDC again and<br />
hence he wants to devise ways and<br />
• Akwasi Addai, founder and leader of UPP<br />
means to get into NPP.<br />
“He’s stoking fire and when he<br />
lands himself into trouble then,<br />
he can say that NDC has neglected<br />
him when he’d issues with<br />
the NPP and by so doing he will<br />
enter into NPP again,” Odike told<br />
Kasapa 102.5 FM on Friday.”<br />
His comment comes after the<br />
acerbic-tongued ex-President John<br />
Mahama loyalist, Appiah Stadium<br />
described President Nana Akufo-<br />
Addo as a ‘monkey’ and a<br />
‘wee'(marijuana) addict, which<br />
subsequently led to his arrest by<br />
the police.<br />
President Akufo-Addo, according<br />
to a statement signed by the<br />
Information Minister, Mr<br />
Mustapha Hamid indicated he will<br />
not take up claims made against<br />
him by the accused [Appiah Stadium]<br />
that he smokes marijuana,<br />
which led to his release from Police<br />
custody.<br />
Commenting on the fallout<br />
from Appiah Stadium’s case,<br />
Odike said NPP must not entertain<br />
Appiah Stadium lest he’ll outsmart<br />
them, and maneuver to<br />
cross carpet to NPP like he did in<br />
the past.<br />
“If you’ll remember he was once<br />
with the ruling NPP. Nana Akufo-<br />
Addo gave him money to rent a<br />
place at the time. It was even<br />
Akufo-Addo who arranged for him<br />
to visit abroad for the first time in<br />
his lifetime. If you’ll recall just after<br />
NPP went into opposition, then he<br />
insulted some leaders and got himself<br />
into trouble. But, he quickly<br />
crossed carpet to NDC, insisting<br />
that NPP mistreated him and abandoned<br />
him in court.<br />
“Now NDC is in opposition,<br />
and he wants to use the same<br />
strategy to find a stable life because<br />
he’s desperate now. So I will<br />
throw a word of caution to the<br />
NPP to be very careful with Appiah<br />
Stadium. What he’s to do is<br />
to fight so that the NDC returns<br />
to power. NPP leaders must not<br />
entertain him at all; I know why<br />
I’m saying that.”<br />
ECOWAS must intervene in Togo crisis — Rawlings<br />
FORMER PRESIDENT Jerry<br />
John Rawlings has expressed concern<br />
about the protracted nature<br />
of the political standoff in Togo<br />
calling on the Economic Community<br />
of West African States<br />
(ECOWAS) Heads of State to intervene<br />
and bring diplomatic<br />
pressure to bear on the key political<br />
actors to uphold the timeless<br />
values of freedom and justice.<br />
He made the call when he received<br />
a delegation of Togolese<br />
nationals resident in Togo and<br />
the Diaspora at his office in<br />
Accra.<br />
Lily Massan Gnininvi, an activist<br />
based in the United States<br />
who led the delegation narrated<br />
the unfolding political events<br />
back home in her country and expressed<br />
the unrelenting resolve of<br />
majority of Togolese citizens towards<br />
the establishment of a<br />
truly democratic political regime.<br />
According to her, majority of<br />
Togolese citizens are fighting for<br />
the establishment of a truly democratic<br />
political regime and reiterated<br />
the need for a sustained<br />
non-violent approach to achieve<br />
the objectives and aspirations of<br />
the people of Togo.<br />
Togo has in the past few<br />
weeks experienced a wave of<br />
protests demanding an end to the<br />
50-year-old Gnassingbe family<br />
reign.<br />
The demonstrators have been<br />
demanding the country’s return<br />
to its 1992 constitution, which allowed<br />
multi-party democracy<br />
with a limited presidential term<br />
of office<br />
The demonstrators<br />
have been<br />
demanding the<br />
country’s return<br />
to its 1992 constitution,<br />
which<br />
allowed multiparty<br />
democracy<br />
with a limited<br />
presidential term<br />
of office.<br />
• Former President Jerry John Rawlings
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