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Roll back: Mahama needs tutorials in public speaking – Kwesi Pratt
20 Nov 2015

Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi
Pratt Jnr has expressed shock over recent comments
of President John Dramani Mahama claiming they do
not suit his personality.

“Certain words are there that the President must
not utter…truth is one… I don’t think he is
been himself at all…,” he said.

http://www.m.adomonline.com/marticles/opinion/mahama-needs-tutorials-in-public-speaking--kwesi-pratt

President John Mahama has courted negative press
in recent times over comments targeted at the
opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

He is reported to have said during a rally in
Tamale that he wouldn’t have been President if
he was not a member of the NDC.

Addressing party faithful at the Trade Fair Site
in Accra, the President also claimed that aside
former Presidents John Rawlings and Kufuor who
have been Presidents in Ghana before him, no one
was fit to describe him as an ‘incompetent
President’.

In Ho, the President described an NPP press
conference which responded to his utterances as a
‘rabbit press conference’ organized by their
‘Opana’ acting chairman.

The NPP and its communicators have also described
the comments as ‘unfortunate’ insisting that
‘a live rabbit is better than a dead goat.’

But these exchanges, Kwesi Pratt said could have
been avoided if the handlers of the President had
offered him adequate tutorials before he appeared
in public to speak.

He therefore implored them to learn from the
NPP’s flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
who he said always prepares adequately before
making a public appearance.

“Nana Addo, when we used to work with him during
the Alliance for Change days always prepared well
and anticipated questions that would come to him
before he made a public appearance…,” he said
on Acra-based Peace FM.

According to him, he and his colleagues in the
Convention People’s Party (CPP) used to have
rehearsals with the 2000 flagbearer of the party,
Prof Hagan before he always made a public
appearance.

“With Professor Hagan, we even went to the
extent of hiring people to teach him how to read
in public and others,’ he revealed.

Kwesi Pratt therefore called on the handlers of
the President to be up and doing as he is courting
bad press over recent negative utterances.

“For any person speaking whether at a rally or
whatever, there should be preparations…but I
wonder if the handlers can tell him this…,” he
said.

Source - Adomfmonline

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