Kufuor invited to June 4 ?

Sat. June 4, 2011

the Spokesperson for former President Jerry John Rawlings, Mr Kofi Adams, has confirmed that former President John Agyekum Kufuor has been invited to the June 4 celebrations, but an official of the immediate past President says Mr Kufuor has not received any such invitation.
In an interview with the Daily Graphic, the official, who is with President Kufuor in Germany, said there was no such invitation to that effect when they were leaving Ghana on Thursday, June 2, 2011.
“When President Kufuor heard the news from home that he had been invited to the June 4 event, he expressed shock because he was not aware of any such invitation,” the official said.
When asked whether the former President would have attended the event had he received the invitation, he said since the man was not in the country, there was no way he could have attended.
There is speculation that Friends of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings (FONKAR) had extended the invitation to the former Ghanaian leader to attend the event, which is scheduled to take place in Kumasi.
The June 4 Uprising, which was led by Flt Lt Rawlings in 1979, is 32 years and the celebration is taking place at the Jubilee Park in Kumasi.
Speaking on Peace FM in Accra yesterday, Mr Adams said since Mr Kufuor had served under the erstwhile Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), he was welcome to the June 4 event.
For his part, a leading member of FONKAR, Saint Osei, said Mr Kufuor had briefly served under Flt Lt Rawlings during the PNDC era, a situation which made the two former Heads of State have some relationship.
As has been the tradition over the years, members and sympathisers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and admirers of former President Rawlings throughout the country are expected to converge on Kumasi today for the commemoration.
Many Ghanaians are anxious of this year’s June 4 commemoration because of utterances from the former President to the effect that he would come out strong on certain issues within the NDC when he delivered his June 4 speech.