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Felix Kwakye Ofosu says Madam Elizabeth Ohene at her age has succeeded in dragging the good name that she earned over the years as a successful editor into the mud.

“Who would have thought that at her age, Elizabeth Ohene would feel obliged to join the politics of insults? She has only succeeded in dragging her otherwise good name in the mud,” the Abura/Asebu/Kwamankese (AAK) Parliamentary aspirant for the NDC wrote on his Facebook timeline.

Kwakye Ofosu’s post followed a recent article by Elizabeth Ohene titled: “Finding best insults” where she described the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) as “a walking, breathing, laughing insult”.

She added: “Flagbearer Mahama is happy to cite an ethnic group and bundle them up as people who perform illegal, Internet-based fraud? And these people combine the fraudulent practice with traditional rituals? And this will match Dolittle, boot for boot, to borrow his terminology? Or will Sakawa be on the same wavelength as Jeremiah?

While he was President, Mr Mahama used to provide the best copy for insults that could be used against him. If someone called Candidate Mahama a dead goat, that would be considered an insult. And if you are looking for an Akyem Sakawa correlation, you should hear Candidate Mahama: 'when it comes to unleashing violence, no one can beat us to that'."

John Mahama recently endorsed a Facebook post written by Isaac Adongo, the MP for Bolgatanga Central dubbed “Agyapa Royalties fraud is the last straw: The Akyem Sakawa Boys and Grandpas must go”.

In the post, Adongo stated that the Agyapa Royalties deal is a big fraud on Ghana by President Akufo-Addo and his Akyem Mafia.

While President Akufo-Addo expressed his disdain and disappointment, John Mahama who appeared unperturbed by the growing outrage insisted that he had endured worse treatment from his successor.

He said in an interview with TV XYZ, “He [President Akufo-Addo] was an opposition leader who called Presidents before him anything you can imagine, including ‘Prof Do Little’ and then he described somebody as a ‘Simpa Panyin’ and I don’t want to repeat the other things he said…He’s the President who has called his critics naysayers and Jeremiahs.”