Running mate to former President John Dramani Mahama in the 2020 general elections, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has extolled the late President John Evans Atta Mills for the work he did when in office before his demise.
She said Prof Mills developed education, built infrastructure including markets and roads, and was also exemplary in his leadership style.
She said these during the Atta Mills commemorative lecture in Kumasi on Thursday, July 27.
Addressing the gathering, the former Minister of Education indicated that Professor Mills had strong backing from his then Vice President John Dramani Mahama to be able to deliver on his mandate.
Prof Opoku-Agyemang sarcastically jabbed the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) by referring to what happened in the recent Assin North by-election which the NPP candidate lost to the NDC.
“A word to wise is in Assin North,” she said.
At an earlier ceremony to mark the 11th anniversary of the passing of Prof Mills in Accra on Tuesday, July 24, 2023, Mr Mahama for his part said “he was not one to create power at all costs and manipulate state agencies to do his political bidding.
“The Electoral Commission (EC) was truly independent and the judiciary did not live in fear of not satisfying the president’s wishes by their verdicts.
“He did not weaponize justice unlike what we are living through today. He was a great talent sporter and I count myself among his many proteges who have gone on to excel in our various fields of endeavor.
“He held our social and moral values high and it is no wonder that he was unequivocal in his abhorrence of LGBTQ.”
Mr Mahama served as the Vice President to Prof Mills from 2009 to mid-2012 when Prof Mills died on 24th July 2012.