Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has said while senior journalist Randy Abbey managed Mr Mahama's home during his presidency, former presidential staffer Stan Dogbe ran errands for him.
He insisted that Mr Mahama's handlers made it difficult for him to gain access to him while in office.
"It was very difficult [getting access to President Mahama] … so I had to even tell my good younger brother Dr Atuguba [Executive Secretary to the President at the time] that: 'If I cannot advise you people in private, I'll advice you in public, and that was the fifth attempt [to see the President]," Mr Bagbin told Bola Ray on Accra-based Starr FM on Wednesday, 21 June.
Asked by Bola Ray to name the handlers who he claimed constantly prevented him from seeing the president, Mr Bagbin said: "You had the Secretary, Dr Atuguba, who I constantly met and who in my presence got the instruction of the President to organise the meetings; you had Stan Dogbe who was constantly in the presence of the President and running errands and doing so many things for him; you had Randy [Abbey], who was in charge of the domestic [affairs] in the residence of the president – I mean that was the perception, whether it was the reality or not, that was it … it’s possible that was not the truth because perceptions are not the reality …"
It is recalled that Mr Bagbin had exchanges with Mr Dogbe during Mr Mahama's presidency following his (Bagbin's) media interviews that he was being prevented from advising the president about ongoing corruption in his government.
Mr Dogbe, at the time, described Mr Bagbin’s claims as "lies" and wondered, in a Facebook post, what the former Minister of Health did to uproot corruption at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital during his tenure. "What concrete actions did Hon Bagbin take as Minister of Health when issues of concern arose in Korle Bu? If he had acted decisively and in the manner he is spewing out now, would we have been where we are?" he wrote.
Mr Dogbe's reaction prompted a response from Mr Bagbin on Accra-based Joy FM, saying if President Mahama had "people like Stan Dogbe following him around, if such characters as Stan Dogbe are those managing the president, then our president is naked, very naked!"
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Peacefm journalist are truly block headed How can you caption such headlines " Randy Ran Errands for Mahama The word is " RUN" and not ran...TIWOOOOEE!! This is what you get when you stage your stage as a political conduit for mischief and grandeurs propaganda
Is anyone surprised that this man saying derogatory things about former president Mahama? Bagbin has always hated Mahama because he felt he being a lawyer is a better person than Mahama and he should have been the president instead of Mahama. To Bagbin I say, president you will never be.
What access did you need to john mahama now that you have admitted on radio that you are corrupt. How can just a person who have accepted the corrupt title lead ndc. Away with your nun sense.
So with all the access Mahama had to the array of skills, he still failed soooo abysmally? Then the skills that he consulted must be terrible or the guy was just a ***barred word***. LOL
Alban, your quest of becoming a prez will not work if your own Northern brother, u can't hid that pride and help him succeed.
What do you by the two being journalist only . You mean that when one get a first degree that is all he has work with .People do different courses after first degree do to assume they are only journalist is a myopic understanding and you want to act mischievous. A President has access to all the skills and competences need to select who to wogk and we must judge him on that and that alone.
Mr Dogbe's reaction prompted a response from Mr Bagbin on Accra-based Joy FM, saying if President Mahama had "people like Stan Dogbe following him around, if such characters as Stan Dogbe are those managing the president, then our president is naked, very naked!
You see, the two journalist in question are just trained reporters, not people of any consequence and if the ones calling the shots, I'm not surprised that we got the class of governance that we got -zany, vain and crassly incompetent.
When it is coming it is doing. Ebobo ba