News:
May 16, 2011
It appears the issue about the wearing of a “magic’ ring by President John Evans Attah Mills will not die down anytime soon.
The Member of Parliament for Bimbilla, Dominic Nitiwul has re-ignited the matter by providing evidence, which, he insists, supports his controversial claim that President John Evans Atta Mills, during the 2008 campaign period, wore a black magic ring.
The MP, last week was chided by a section of the public when he stated on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana show, that President Mills wore a magic ring on his middle finger which he said the then presidential candidate took off immediately after he won the elections.
Appearing on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana show on Monday 16th May 2012, Hon. Dominic Nitiwul provided a copy of the December 11, 2008 edition of the Daily Graphic newspaper which showed clearly President Mills indeed wore the unusually large ring over his long finger which already had a plaster stacked on.
He wondered if that plaster was there because Prof Mills had suffered an injury on that finger and was still determined to wear the ring despite the pain that he might have been going through.
“To me it is very strange that Prof Mills would wear a black, large, strange ring on a bandaged finger for what purpose” he asked?
“What makes it more bizarre is that the black ring also had some numbers engraved on it. What did those numbers represent?” he asked again.
Hon. Dominic Nitiwul cleared an earlier misrepresentation in the media that he said the magic ring aided President Mills to win the 2008 elections.
“We from the NPP came out with a report which clearly indicated what factors contributed to our losing the 2008 elections and we are clear about that’’ he said.
However the Member of Parliament for Adentan, Kojo Adu-Asare who was also a discussant on the show, called for politics in Ghana to be raised above such petty issues which does not improve the welfare of Ghanaians in any way.
He added that the President Mills is a committed Christian and will not put his trust in any other thing apart from the Almighty God who has continued to help him govern the country.
Story by : Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh