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The Presidential Spokesperson, Mahama Ayariga has accused sections of the media of deliberately spreading malicious, mischievous and false propaganda against the president.He said media reports suggesting President J.E.A. Mills said Ghanaians were complaining too much were untrue and intended to cause disaffection against the government.The president last Friday addressed supporters of the party at the forecourt of the Kumasi Central Mosque as part of his three-day tour of the Ashanti Region.And according to Ayariga, who spoke to Joy FM’s Super Morning Show host Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, the president was responding to unfair criticisms that his government had not produced any deliverables.He said the president was not happy with “some attempts to compare his 10 months tenure in office with some people’s eight years stay in office and he said it was inappropriate, unfair and just not logical (to make such comparison), he never said Ghanaians complain too much, it is totally untrue, it is false, the president never, never made those statements. He was simply responding to some criticism and it is his right to respond to propaganda, nobody can take that right away from him.”Mr Ayariga also rejected suggestions that President Mills was angry, arguing at no point was the president angry in Kumasi where he interacted with residents.“The president was simply responding to criticisms and he put it in a certain way and if anybody thinks that that is an expression of anger, I can assure you I know the president’s mood very well and he was not any way angry,” he emphasized.He said President Mills decided to respond to the criticisms in Kumasi “for very strategic reasons. He took his time, he waited until he was in Kumasi and he responded to those criticisms.”The former Bawku Central MP declared that “we will respond in equal measure to deliberate propaganda [aimed at] causing disaffection for the government.”Story by Malik Abass Daabu/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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