Pee Yalley dares Allotey Jacobs to drop 'bomb' or . . .
A public interest Lawyer and Ghana’s former High Commissioner to India, Mr Sam Pee Yalley, has dared Mr Allotey Jacobs of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to drop a purported ‘bomb’ the latter claims is hanging on his chest.
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If I start talking . . .
Mr Jacobs, the Central Regional Chairman of the (NDC), had said there were a lot of issues on his mind and that the party would collapse if he started talking.
“If I start talking, the NDC will collapse. There is a bomb on my chest, and if it falls, the party is doomed,” Mr Jacobs said in a radio interview last week.
He alluded to the fact that the defeat of the party had infuriated its rank and file who felt the NDC failed to execute its agenda for victory.
In his view, those who are expressing their anger over the defeat in public have the right to do so because “they are speaking on our behalf. For them to address these issues in the public is the best because we do not want to destroy the party”.
The issues being raised by these people, he said, were true. “All was not well with the party in the run-up to the 2016 general election,” he added.
Drop bomb
But Mr Jacobs’s comment seems to have infuriated Mr Yalley who wants the former to drop the said bomb or ‘shut up’ forever.
Speaking on Radio Gold’s current affairs programme, Alhaji and Alhaji, last Saturday, Mr Yalley dared Mr Jacobs to pour out his frustrations.
“Listen to Allotey Jacobs. What is he saying? He has a bomb on his chest. Let him release it. The NDC will not collapse,” he stated.
He suggested that members of the NDC who were playing the blame game and pointing accusing fingers at each other could rather “make lots of sense if they keep quiet”.
He also bemoaned the situation where some leaders of the party had chosen to run to the media to vent their anger about the party’s defeat.
He urged all aggrieved supporters to wait patiently for the Dr Kwesi Botchwey Committee to finish its work on possible causes of the NDC’s unprecedented defeat in the 2016 presidential election so that the best decision could be taken in the interest of the party.