The suspended former Central Regional Chairman of the NDC, Bernard Allotey Jacobs has disclosed that his ‘tough’ decision to recuse himself as a panel member of Peace FM’s morning show, Kokrokoo was influenced largely by the advice of Ghana’s late President, John Evans Atta Mills in what looked like a dream.
He said even though it was a bitter pill to swallow, he had to pay heed to the late President’s wise counsel to bring some level of sanity in the party.
Speaking in a phone interview on Peace FM, Allotey Jacobs said he encountered the late Prof Mills in a very white and shiny outfit not long ago who warned him not to put himself in a position to be blamed for the party’s woes in future.
Even though he had received a number of advice from people he reveres, he said the words of the late President sank in.
“But Kwame what buttresses my position not to come on media encounters; last four days, Kwame, I’m telling you this secret; I had a dream that my own big brother, Professor Mills; whether it’s a vision, whether it’s an apparition, whether it’s a dream; circa 11:00 to 12:00 Monday, I saw him in white apparel.”
“It was my first time; he was sparkling and was in a black shoe. He asked me to escort him to his sister’s house. When we were approaching the house, he rescinded his decision and asked us to return which we did.”
“When we returned, I realised the lace of his right shoe was untied. When I attempted to fasten them for him, he stopped and said ‘no, no, no, you are not the right person to lace the shoes;’ that is what I heard,” he said.
He continued, “so after lacing his own shoes, he told me he was leaving me a message. He said ‘Allotey, do not allow posterity to say you are the cause of…;’ then he vanished, I didn’t see him again. That was big advice and so that buttresses my point that it is better for me to pull out and stay home.”
He, however, noted that he is ever ready to speak to issues anytime he is called upon to do so.
“I am waiting for 2021; I may be proved right, I may be proved wrong. I will speak in 2021; because God is truth,” he added.
Allotey Jacobs last week announced his withdrawal from Peace FM’s Kokrokoo and all other media platforms until further notice.
His resignation came shortly after he was suspended by the NDC for utterances and positions they considered to be “anti-party.”
He explained at the time that, upon a sober reflection of the happenings in the NDC and broader consultations with his family and other party stalwarts, he has decided to distance himself from all media engagement saying he cannot be an obstacle to the NDC’s chances of winning the 2020 polls.
“I have come to the conclusion that if it is because of one man, a whole big political party in opposition will say they won’t come to Peace FM, then let me go back to the biblical saying that its’s better to sacrifice one man than for all whole nation to perish so I have decided to quit,” a very emotional Allotey Jacobs announced.
