The controversial 'Vikileaks' tape, which has received much condemnation in Ghana, seems to have rather made the flamboyant former Deputy Minister of Communications, Victoria Hammah, popular in Nigeria.
Yesterday, The Chronicle office was inundated with calls from the various media outlets in Nigeria, which were seeking to get an update of the story.
What seems to have fascinated the Nigerian journalists, some of whom had previously worked with the popular Punch Newspaper, was not the size of Vicky's body, but her protruding buttocks and wide hips.
Some of them demanded to know when the picture would be uploaded on The Chronicle's website to enable them download it and use it in their local media outlets.
It was not Nigerians alone who were admiring the Ghanaian chatterbox, as a prominent lawyer and a former Member of Parliament in Ghana also called to express his admiration of her protruding buttocks, especially, of the picture we have reproduced at the front page today.
Staff members of The Chronicle were equally busy receiving calls from friends and relatives, who wanted to know what kind of picture the paper had published, and which was attracting public attention.
Commentators on most of the social media networks, especially on facebook, even though condemned the statement attributed to her on the tape, nevertheless showed great admiration for the buttocks of the young swashbuckling lady.
Meanwhile, pressure is beginning to mount on President John Dramani Mahama to reinstate the Deputy Minister he fired barely a week ago.
Twenty four hours after the tape was made public, the Minister of Information and Media Relations, Mahama Ayariga, issued a press statement that the President had fired the Deputy Minister, who had launched a vitriolic attack on some of her colleagues in government. She also claimed on the tape that until she had made $1 million, she would not quit politics.
The President's decision to fire the Deputy Minister was commended by the New Patriotic Party firebrand Dr. Nyaho Nyaho Tamakloe.
Speaking on Asempa FM, an Accra-based radio station, he wondered why a young Deputy Minister would have a notion of getting such a whopping amount of money before leaving office (politics), instead of sacrificing for the betterment of the nation.
'If her (Victoria Hammah) idea is to get into politics to get money, then that is very disturbing,' he said.
Nonetheless, he lauded the President for standing on his authority to sack the Deputy Minister, since such decisions are difficult to take. 'When I heard that the President has sacked her, I was very happy. Happy in the sense that such decisions are difficult to take, and the President has been able to take such a decision, I was extremely glad about it.'
But, whilst Dr. Tamakloe was lauding the President, chiefs from Victoria Hammah's hometown in the Brong Ahafo Region were pleading with the President to tamper justice with mercy.
Nana Guakro Effah of Kintampo thinks the punishment meted out to the former Deputy Minister was too harsh, and must be reviewed.
The vociferous NPP MP for Ablekuma West, Mrs. Ursula Owusu Ekoful, who Victoria Hammah contested in the last parliamentary election, also expressed regret that her political career had been cut short during an Akan discussion programme on Peace FM.
In the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) itself, there seems to be a sharp division over the decision by the President to sack the former Deputy Minister, who has so far not made any public comment on the leaked tape. via mordernghana
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