Ghana disowns GEJ over comment on Nigeria

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  Ghanaian authorities are angry with former President Goodluck Jonathan over his recent comment alleging that the President of Ghana, Nana Akuffo-Addo, mocked Nigeria.
  According to TheNation, they dismissed as untrue claims by Jonathan in Ado-Ekiti penultimate Friday that Akuffo-Addo recently mocked the poor state of security in Nigeria and the weak status of the country’s currency.
  Speaking at the inauguration of a flyover in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, the former president had said that things had deteriorated so much in Nigeria that it had lost its respect in Africa.
  But responding to the statement yesterday, Ghana’s High Commissioner in Nigeria, Mr. Rashid Bawa, said Jonathan “took the words of President Akufo-Addo completely out of context.”
  He said: “The alleged remark that ‘Ghana is not Nigeria where cattle can roam about anyhow’ has never been made by President Akufo-Addo. That is not his way of speaking.
  President Akufo-Addo, in many of the speeches he has made in Nigeria and elsewhere since becoming the President of Ghana, has described Nigeria as ‘a country I describe as my second home in the world’, and will never use Nigeria to make negative examples as the former President Goodluck Jonathan sought to portray.
  President Akufo-Addo enjoys a very good relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari , as he has with many other Nigerian leaders.
  Ghana and Nigeria are like siblings, and it would be most inappropriate, because of politics, for anyone, regardless of his or her status in society, to try to sow seeds of discord amongst the leadership and peoples of our two countries.”