NPP says it is shocked at Prof. Mills' behaviour

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Wednesday described as "a shocker" the behaviour of the Vice-President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills at last Saturday's National Democratic Congress (NDC) rally at the Kawukudi Junction in Accra.

It said Prof. Mills joined the top brass of the NDC in "heaping vulgar abuse" on the opposition and the private media

The NPP in a statement signed by Mr. S.A Odoi-Sykes, chairman, said "the Vice-President Atta Mills went out of his way to launch an unwarranted attack on the opposition in imitation of his boss, President Rawlings."

The statement said the NPP and its leadership are self-respecting persons and not arrogant and would not descend to the level of the NDC to "trade abuses with Atta Mills or with the NDC."

"Unlike the NDC, we shall never resort to vilification and vulgar abuse to cover up our failures and deceit.

"Atta Mills has clearly demonstrated at least that he is a mere puppet of Rawlings - what the Fanti people call 'Kohinko', and that if elected president it would simply be giving power back to his boss."

"Rawlings will pull the strings and Kohinko Mills will jump as Rawlings pleases."

The statement said the NPP "had thought that Atta Mills, a learned professor of Law, would have a better appreciation of multi-party democracy in which opposition parties are not traduced and bullied."

"It was a disgraceful sight to see a whole President, his Vice, Ministers and leading members of the NDC government competing in the heaping of vulgar abuse on the opposition parties and the private media. There was no senior person to caution or call anyone to order. It was free for all".

The statement said the NPP are not liars as was proclaimed by the Vice-President adding that it is the opposition who is "telling the people the truth about presidential jet, about the Keta Sea Defence Wall, about the "Rawlings tape" about the national economy."

The statement described Prof. Mills as the "baptized and confirmed disciple of the NDC and President Rawlings," and said electing him (Prof. Mills) "means in effect re-electing Rawlings for a third term."

"This will be a disaster which Ghanaians do not deserve."