The Ashanti regional Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, has called the bluff of Dr. Spio-Garbrah following his threat to sue him in court.
Dr. Spio-Garbrah, a stalwart of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) claims that Mr. Antwi-Boasiako popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, defamed him by calling him a thief on Wontumi TV.
According to him, Chairman Wontumi has stated that “All that Inusah Fuseini is saying is that even him, Inusah Fuseini is a thief. If you mention Spio-Garbrah’s name, he is a thief. Sylvester Mensah is a thief, Joshua Alabi is a thief, all their Presidential candidates are thieves so if John Mahama is a thief then let us allow him to continue stealing”.
As a result of that Dr. Spio-Garbrah is demanding $10 million as compensation.
But Chairman Wontumi has reacted to the claims and schooled the NDC man on the matter stating that the issue has a precedent.
He first pointed out to Wontumionline that it was wrong for Dr. Spio-Garbrah to sue him in a foreign currency when he has to give respect to the Ghana Cedi.
“Why is he suing me in dollars and not cedis. This is very wrong to sue someone in Ghana in another currency”, Chairman Wontumi quizzed.
Secondly, he recounted from history that before former President Kufuor exited office, the current General Secretary for the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia labelled all seventeen (17) aspirants of the NPP that wanted to succeed the former President “thieves”.
He continued that NDC members including Dr. Spio-Garbrah hailed Asiedu Nketia for denigrating 17 Presidential aspirants and wondered why he feels hurt to be called same.
“When Kufour was President and needed a successor, Asiedu Nketia came out to call the 17 aspirants thieves and which one of them sued him? He should get a life. Why didn’t Spio call Asiedu Nketia then to inform him not to do that?” Chairman Wontumi asked.
He advised that Spio-Garbrah shouldn’t take him on when he only translated what a panelist read on TV from English to Twi.
“English is not our mother tongue, I only tried to translate what the panel member read. The translation was done from English to Twi and Spio must understand that as Africans, English is not our first language”, he said.