Former President John Dramani Mahama has visited the grave side of former Deputy Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Comrade Kojo Mahama Adams.
The visit was to honour the memory of the late Comrade Mahama Adams (HON) who was laid to rest exactly 19 ago last Tuesday, September 8, 2021.
Comrade kojo Mahama Adams, was the regional organising assistant of CDRs in the then Brong Ahafo region. He coordinated a lot of activities in the region prior to the emergence of the fourth Republic and the formation of the NDC party.
The late Kojo Mahama Adams was the man who proposed the use of the Umbrella as the symbol of the NDC. He defended it as a symbol of unity, togetherness, protection that the nation needed for stability and unity.
He went on to say, the beauty of an umbrella is lost when a single part of it is broken. An umbrella must have all its components together to stand in its magnificence and to be able to protect each person beneath it. With this, he called for unity of purpose amongst the ranks and file of the party.
Hon Kojo Mahama Adams contested and won the regional chairmanship elections in 2002 after the party had lost the 2000 elections to President J. A. kuffour.
The late founder former President Jerry John Rawlings called for a strategic NEC meeting right after the elections in his residence. A successful meeting was turned sour for the people of the then Brong Ahafo Region when the news broke out of an accident that occurred in Suhum which took the life of this stalwart of the party.
As fate will have it, former President John Mahama’s Thank You Toure has coincided with the 19th anniversary of Mr. Kojo Mahama Adam and has occasioned Ghanians to know where the umbrella originated from and the man behind it.
He was a celebrated Comrade of the party who became a Deputy Regional Minister, and a Regional Chairman before his demise.
May his soul and the souls of many other Comrades rest in perfect peace.
BY: GODWIN AKO GUNN/Nationaltymes.com
