Government blamed for Nana Addo rejection at Volta Star

The Camp of Nana Akufo-Addo, the 2012 Flagbearer of the Opposition New Patriotic Party has expressed shock at the decision of the Management of Volta Star Radio to deny Nana Addo airtime on the Volta regional branch of the State broadcaster GBC.

Nana Addo’s Campaign Manager, Boakye Agyarko told Citi News the entire Akufo-Addo team was shocked when management of the station made a u-turn on Tuesday morning September 7, after initially agreeing to sell the airtime to Nana Addo who intended thanking his supporters in the region through the radio.

Mr. Agyarko told Citi News alternative arrangements had been made for Nana Addo to speak on Volta Premier, a private radio station.

According to him, management of the station said they refused Nana Addo the airtime because President Mills, who was then the Presidential candidate of the NDC in 2008 was denied a similar opportunity.

Mr. Agyarko, however suspects unseen political hands in Government may have mounted pressure on the state broadcaster to deny Nana Addo the opportunity. “Suspicions or no suspicions, the recurrent trend we are seeing is the inflexible posture to use state institutions to stifle opposition. But I don’t believe that the people of this country want to be governed that way, but that is where we are and that is what we will deal with”.

“We will formally launch a complaint through the Media Commission and all of that but my reading of our current political atmosphere is one of intolerance that does not know correction. We saw what happened in Cape Coast".

"These provocations in my mind will continue because that is the style that operatives of our governments are used to. It happened in Cape Coast and it happened many times and I don’t expect them to end. But we will make a formal complaint and follow due process. When things like these happen in State institutions, complaints have to be made to the Media Commission. But whether that complaint will change attitudes I doubt it” he said.