“President Mahama entered Secondary School on a Western Gonja District Council Scholarship when Mr. Edward Akufo-Addo's Government was overthrown in 1972. He could not have paid fees for President Mahama when as a student he was already on scholarship. President Mahama's study in the USSR was on a Soviet scholarship awarded through the Scholarship Secretariat. “President Mahama never personally knew or met President Akufo-Addo until they were both sworn into Parliament on the same day in January 1997. Edudzi Tamakloe, an aide to John Mahama in an earlier post, exhorted Adorye to refrain from peddling falsehood about the former president.
