The President and some of his dignitaries their entourage, and all the Ghanaian dignitaries, were also treated to delicious Ewe ‘Abolo’ with fried fish and pork sausage, ‘waakye’, Hausa ‘kooko’, white porridge and Quaker Oats, Daily Guide has been reliably informed.
Among those who feasted on the locally prepared breakfast menu were Ministers of State, Members of Parliament (MPs), Members of the Diplomatic Corps, presidential candidates of the 2008 general elections and traditional rulers. It was not immediately clear whether the choice of the local dishes instead of the usual tea, coffee and baked beans for the august guests, by the government was to avoid being further accused of using billions of cedis on tea and snacks as the Transition Team reportedly did recently.
Meanwhile, the anticipated meeting of the two surviving former presidents of Ghana at the same breakfast table with US President Barack Hussein Obama at the Osu Castle failed to materialize last Saturday as ex-President Jerry John Rawlings, refused to sit with his colleague, John Agyekum Kufuor.
Daily Guide gathered that after saluting dignitaries in a military fashion, ex-President Rawlings walked away from former President Kufuor, who had already been seated minutes before his arrival.
The paper learnt that observers, who were keenly expecting ex-President Rawlings to at least acknowledge the presence of his successor, were awestruck when the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) rather moved way from him without even an eye contact. Whilst shaking hands, Daily Guide learnt that the ex-President rather chose to move to a table far from former President Kufuor where he hugged a northern chief before sitting down with his wife, Nana Konadu.
After sitting for a while and reminiscent of his demeanor, the NDC founder, stood up, held the hands of his wife and both walked to the high table of the Presidency where Vice President John Mahama and his wife, Lordina, and Michelle Obama were seated.
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