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Prez Mills' Promise of Change is a Political Gimmick-Dr. Arthur Kennedy
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

Accra, Jan 15, Ghanadot - The communications director of the Akufo-Addo campaign team for Election 2008, Dr Arthur Kennedy, has stated that contrary to Prof Mills’ promises to “hit the ground running,” the President rather “hit the ground crawling.”

He said, “We will give Prof. Mills time to find his feet; he said he would hit the ground running, it sounds like he hit the ground crawling.”

The President at his inauguration on December 7 made an off-the-cuff delivery that promised to get off to a brisk and smart start when he assumes office.

Perhaps his expression, which grammarians say saw the light of day sometime toward the end of the 19th century in the USA, was the toast of the occasion.

With barely a week into his administration, critics of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) say the ruling party rather seems to have started its term giving off characteristics that are a stark contrast of what the President promised.

Dr. Arthur Kennedy was responding to comments made by the former President during a press conference on Wednesday in which Mr Rawlings called on President Mills to sack District, Metropolitan and Municipal Chief Executives appointed during the Kufuor administration.

While admitting that “it is still early days yet,” Dr Kennedy said Mr Rawlings’ pronouncements stoked fears among some sections of the public that President Mills might still be tied to the apron strings of the former President.

The medical doctor also denied reports that some DCEs and MCEs had begun shredding documents to cover their backs.

He described the former President’s accusation, as “respectfully,” smacking of a “conspiracy theory.”

“This is a constitutional government, there was no coup; this is an orderly transfer of power,” he said.

“If you look at the operation that Victor Smith mounted at the Castle, stopping people on the street and taking vehicles from them, these things are very reminiscent of coups,” he said.

Ghanadot