Daily Post Editor Downplays Relevance of Photograph Showing Nana Addo And 17 Other Lawyers

Editor of the Daily Post newspaper, Mike Dokosi, has downplayed the relevance of a photograph purported to substantiate claims that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, last year’s Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is a qualified lawyer.

The picture which was released on Monday saw Nana Addo in the company of 17 other lawyers.

It showed when he was enrolled as a lawyer with Nana Ato Dadzie and Counsel for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the ongoing election conflict before the Supreme Court, Tsatsu Tsikata, in 1975.

Nana Ato Dadzie, a member of the NDC legal team and former Chief of Staff in Ex-President Rawlings’ regime, in an interview with Citi FM, sought to demystify the minds of Ghanaians about the qualification of the NPP flagbearer as a legal practitioner.
According to him, his personal experience with Nana Addo proved that he is an eminent lawyer, as reported in a Daily Guide publication on Monday, May 6, 2013.

However, a former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Francis Yaonasu Kpegah sued Nana Addo at the High Court charging him with impersonation and therefore praying the court to nullify his legitimacy in the legal firm.

The court ruled in favour of the NPP legal team, suggesting that Nana Addo is a lawyer.

This notwithstanding, the Daily Post editor in an interview with Radio Gold, recounted that the picture is not entirely true and is intended to mislead the Ghanaian citizenry.

He described it as a deceptive move to manipulate the citizens into believing what he called “falsehood” by the NPP gurus.

Without mincing words, he stated categorically that the lawyers flanking Nana Addo in the photograph are not his classmates and so, wondered “why they are trying to deceive the nation?...Those are not his classmates and that is the fact.”

He raised red flags over the purported photo saying it “is not a picture of the classmates of Akufo-Addo or the class of 75 to which they are claiming Akufo-Addo belongs to. So, clearly, they are trying to mislead the nation and it raises a lot of eyebrows.”

“For them to use it as a picture of the class of 75 is really misleading because it is not. We have also made our checks. Indeed, they’ve pointed an arrow to somebody in the middle, third from the left and they claim it is Tsatsu Tsikata...” but “if people begin to use lies to defend an issue, then it means that they have something to hide. Then, one would want to say that, then, Justice Kpegah really has a case.” he said.

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana