Nyaunu Is Hot

Hon. Michael Tei Nyaunu is hot. There is a saying in Ghanaian pidgin English that “Every day for thief man, one day for master.” This means that everybody’s cup will be full one day. Mr. Tei Nyaunu’s cup is full, as former President Jerry John Rawlings has discovered the extent of ignobility perpetuated around him by people like the ‘outgoing’ Member of Parliament (MP) for the Lower Manya constituency all this while, an indication that their game is up.
Many things have been said in the name of the former President in the immediate past against the Mills-led NDC government by people who claim to be championing the former President’s course in the NDC. Some things have also been said deliberately against the former President by members of this same group, which they have cleverly attributed to innocent persons within the party. For their parochial reasons, these people keep stoking the fires to ensure that the former President does not join the 2012 campaign of the NDC. They hope that President John Evans Atta Mills and the NDC would have only one term in office.
The Catalyst can state emphatically that Mr Tei Nyaunu is burning alive from the heat emanating from the wrath of former President Rawlings against him. Mr Nyaunu incurred the wrath of the former President for using his name to maliciously peddle blatant falsehoods he intended to use in deceiving the public as the outcome of a meeting he had with some chiefs from the Volta region at his ridge office last week.
The paper can state on authority that former President Rawlings is very angry with Mr Nyaunu for saying things he did not say at the meeting with the Volta chiefs, which was cordial by all standards. The FONKAR man, The Catalyst has learnt, is whining like a child, asking for forgiveness for letting his okro mouth run too wild.
Mr Nyaunu, who was present at the meeting stated categorically on ‘Eyewitness News’ on Citi FM, an Accra-based private radio station that former President Rawlings gave President Mills a tall order, as in conditions and ultimatums issued by him, to be met before he would change his mind to join the NDC 2012 campaign.
Mr Nyaunu mentioned that the former President had told the chiefs he wanted the removal of Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia as NDC General Secretary. He cited as justification the wicked lie created by the likes of himself and some other members of FONKAR that the NDC General Secretary had referred to former President Rawlings as a barking dog.
This was a double falsehood. First, Mr. Tei Nyaunu peddled a palpable falsehood that former President Rawlings is demanding that Mr Asidu Nketia to be removed from his current post by the party. Second, he lied that Mr Asiedu Nketia called the former President a barking dog. Mr. Asiedu Nketia has never called former President Rawlings a dog.
Mr Tei Nyaunu also stated that former President Rawlings demanded that the government should get back Mr Woyome’s GH¢51 million judgement debt as a condition for his return to the NDC campaign trail in 2012. This was also totally false.
Spokesperson for former President Rawlings and suspended Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Mr. Kofi Adams, who called into the programme by order from former President Rawlings, refuted the wild claims by Mr Nyaunu.
The Catalyst can also state that before Mr Kofi Adams’ intervention, the former President had caused to be issued a statement from his office exposing the malicious intent of a daily Guide publication and to debunk the wild claims criminally attributed to him, total hogwash which Mr Nyaunu was later re-echoing on radio.
Below is a rejoinder from the office of the former president.
REJOINDER TO DAILY GUIDE: ‘JJ TELLS MILLS VOMIT WOYOME CASH’ The Office of His Excellency Jerry John Rawlings has read with disdain the front-page report of your April 26, 2012 edition captioned ‘JJ TELLS MILLS VOMIT WOYOME CASH’.
We wish to state categorically that the report authored by Charles Takyi Boadu is false.
While we do not wish to delve into the details of what was discussed in deference to the delegation of chiefs who requested for privacy in the full glare of the media including your reporter, we have to state that at no point during the meeting did President Rawlings issue conditions and ultimatums to the NDC government.
President Rawlings’s contributions at the meeting were summarized by his spokesperson, Mr. Kofi Adams and we find it unprofessional and absurd that your reporter attempted to question the veracity and accuracy of the presentation by Mr. Adams.
The former President has throughout the tenure of President Mills been unequivocal about the need for the Mills government to uphold the tenets of probity and accountability and re-investigate serious infractions during the tenure of the NPP. He did not hesitate to bring up those issues once again.
There is no doubt that President Rawlings is extremely unhappy about goings-on within the country under the administration of President Mills, but that does not mean he will acquiesce to falsehoods linked to his name even if they are critical of the current government.
This Office wonders if the report is not a conspiracy by certain political elements to generate misguided animosity within the current political dispensation designed to court the usual political sympathy for the government.
The crux of President Rawlings’ message during the meeting on Tuesday April 24 was the fact that he wished the NDC would win the 2012 elections but that opportunity had been squandered due to the abandonment of the party’s values.
We wish to urge the Daily Guide and all members of the media to make it a point to crosscheck information picked up from unofficial sources before going public as such distortion is untenable.
Signed: Kobina Andoh Amoakwa (Communication Director)

It is important to note that Hon Nyaunu became overly embittered since he lost the primaries in his constituency and so cannot contest again for parliament on the ticket of the NDC, for which reason he declared his intention to run for parliament as an independent candidate.