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Mr Kofi Adams, spokesperson for the former first family, has rubbished reports by international whistle blower website, wikileaks, which has made damning revelations about ex-president Jerry John Rawlings.
Among other things, the report said Mr Rawlings was ill and barely had time for his wife.
But Mr Kofi Adams says the claims have resulted from “an informal reporting and analysis of an uninformed person”.
He said in an interview with Peace FM Monday, that the fact that the report came from wikileaks does not make it factual or privilege information.
While admitting that some of the facts were true, Mr Kofi Adams maintained there were inconsistencies in other aspects of it.
For instance, he noted, any serious person who has followed Mr Rawlings will know that he has only four children, in contrast to the report which claimed he had six.
The spokesperson also stated that it was no secret that the former first couple had little time for each other because even Mrs Rawlings had indicated publicly that while her husband was on the one hand attending to issues of governance she was on the other hand championing women empowerment projects across the country and beyond.
"I don’t see the head and tail of these leaks, he said adding, “So I don’t think that we should make any fetish out of this”.
Commenting on his boss’ health, Kofi Adams said “there is nobody who does not have hospital card’ and that everybody knows Mr Rawlings is aging and will surely be susceptible to one ailment or the other.
He debunked suggestions that Mr Rawlings shakes when he speaks or that he had been suffering from clinical depression and had also had a cardiac arrest, explaining that the ex-president only had a fast heart beat and went to hospital to slow it down, a treatment he said “is normal and which happens medically.”
According to Kofi Adams, Ghanaians are tempted to make fetish out of the wikileaks reports and hence the public discussions of them, adding that many diplomats have less intelligence than ordinary Ghanaians on the streets and [yet] "we give them all kinds of unnecessary platforms to analyse issues they themselves do not understand.”
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