How Ivorian bum forecasted Atta-Mills' ascent to President - Brother relates
Prof. John Evans Atta-Mills, the third President of the Fourth Republic was keen on open help yet not in dynamic cutting edge legislative issues.
Little miracle it took rehashed influence by the then President, Jerry John Rawlings and different top dogs of the administering National Democratic Congress, NDC, to get the law teacher who was top of the Internal Revenue Service, at that point, to acknowledge a proposal of becoming Vice President.
However, well before the NDC made the suggestion to a man whose work at IRS was respected by the President late Jerry John Rawlings, a poor person in Ivory Coast had predicted Atta-Mills' ascent to become President.
This is per a record shared by his sibling Samuel Atta-Mills in a narrative recognizing the tenth commemoration of Atta-Mills' passing as circulated on Joy News Channel.
"He never contemplated engaging in governmental issues, he was tied in with aiding however many individuals as he could. Doing public great," Samuel, who is official for the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem Constituency said.
"However, there was a period that he had an outing to Cote d'Ivoire and he has a few companions who are still around who could vouch for that. There was a poor person who was perched in the city.
"The person was requesting cash and he (Atta-Mills) was the only one out of the gathering who gave him a few cash and afterward when he gave him some cash, the person got back to him and said, 'you, at some point; you will be president.'
"… different folks asked him what did he tell you… he told them (that the poor person said he would become president one day) and they ignored it and disappeared.
"It was after he had become president that a portion of his companions came and advised him that, 'hello, you recall when we went to Cote d'Ivoire, this thing occurred,' that wasn't his remembered to engage in legislative issues," he said.
He uncovered that Atta-Mills had likewise gone to the "Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute and he was somebody who really focused on the neighbor and he did it admirably."
The late president went from the auditoriums of the University of Ghana to the IRS, then, at that point, forward to the seat of government, Osu Castle, as Vice President for a four-year term.
He lost decisions two times in 2000 and 2004 and over that period got back to the auditorium till 2008 when he won the official political race. He served three and a big part of his four-year residency before he kicked the bucket in 2012 with months to the General Elections.
The tenth commemoration festivity of his passing was noticed formally by the state at a charging of a revamped Asomdwee Park, the spot his human remaining parts were covered.
It was gone to by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Vice President Bawumia as well as Koku Anyidoho, whose Non-Governmental Organization, the Atta Mills Institute, AMI, got government to embrace remodels at the Park.
John Dramani Mahama and the National Democratic Congress as well as the Atta-Mills family, held their own celebration at the Park hours after that of the state had finished.
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