Adom
FM News Editor, Gladys Arthur, known in media circles as Afia Pokua Vim
Lady has refuted allegations by Neat FM presenter, Adakabre Frimpong
Manso that flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo threatened him at a press soiree in his house in December
2011.
The former Adom FM Morning Show host reacting to news of
the NPP threatening to boycott his afternoon political show on Neat FM
claimed that he was on two occasions attacked and threatened by the NPP
flagbearer for daring to do stories about him.
Speaking on Joy FM
on Monday, Adakabre claimed that he was abused by Nana Addo in the
presence of NPP Running mate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Tema East MP Titus
Glover, former Ayawaso West Wuogon MP Frema Osei Opare, Northern Region
NPP Chairman Daniel Bugri Naabu and Minority Leader, Osei Kyei
Mensah-Bonsu.
This, he said happened in April 2014 at the residence of the late Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama.
Prior
to this, Adakabre claimed Nana Addo at a press soiree had abused and
threatened him at his Nima residence when he attended an end of year
press soiree organized by the politician.
The threat, Adakabre
claimed was a form of protest by the NPP standard bearer for reviewing
and interviewing persons about a story which appeared in the Daily Post
that he had urinated on a mosque during his visit to the Yabgonwura in
Damango.
The story claimed that Nana Addo after urinating on the mosque washed his manhood with Voltic water.
“Nana
Addo abused and threatened me, I was so sad, but I kept quiet…I was
afraid because I had several text messages flowing from that incident
when I was told to the face that you will be killed,” he alleged in the
interview.
The attack on him by the twice defeated flagbearer of
the NPP, Adakabre claimed occurred in the presence of other reporters
including Listowel Kwadwo Fordjour and Afia Pokua Vim Lady of Adom FM.
Reacting
to this on Adom FM’s Evening News Monday, Afia Pokua denied claims by
the Lawyer cum Journalist that Nana Addo publicly attacked his person.
According
to Afia Pokua who claimed she met Adakabre at the residence with his
producer, Kwadwo Fordjour, Nana Addo after being ushered to the meeting
grounds by NPP Youth Organiser, Sammy Awuku started shaking hands with
the media personnel present at the event.
However, when Nana Addo
got to the turn of Adakabre, he failed to greet him and instead
confronted him on why he had chosen to expose him to public ridicule
through publication of falsehood concerning him on commercial radio.
“Nana
Addo asked Adakabre why are you doing that to me…he asked that if I am
your brother won’t you have liked it….why do you put me on public radio
and disgrace me like that?,” Afia Pokua quoted Nana Addo as saying at
the public event.
According to her, Nana Addo who was least happy
at the disgrace meted out to him on air rather questioned why Adakabre
failed to consult his outfit for their version of the story after the
newspaper report.
Asked if she saw Nana Addo publicly threatening
Adakabre for daring to publish the supposed false story about him, Afia
Pokua responded that she never saw anything like that.
“There
was no threats, what I saw is what I have said if it amounts to threat
to Adakabre, then it is based on his own interpretation…Adakabre fell
ashamed because he had wanted to greet Nana Addo but Nana Addo refused
to greet him,” she said further.
The Adom Midday News Anchor
further claimed that, she is not privy to the threatening text messages
which Adakabre claimed in the interviewed were sent to his phone after
the incident.
Meanwhile, a Daily Guide report of 8 July 2013
claimed Abubakari Rufai, the 32-year-old man who accused Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo of urinating on the walls of a mosque at the
Yagbonwura Palace in Damango, thereby defiling the place, had died of
urine retention. |
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