President John Mahama is so kind-hearted that he would even help his enemies, businessman Seidu Agongo has said.

In a recent interview with Metro TV, the philanthropist revealed how Mr Mahama, during his first-term presidency, personally intervened to get the Electricity Company of Ghana to pay Mr Kennedy Agyapong, an opposition MP, some locked-up funds due him.

“I’m so hopeful with the new government because ‘Bro John’ [President John Mahama] is somebody that I’ve known for years. I call him ‘Bro John’. His Excellency John Dramani Mahama is somebody that I admire so much because he even eats with his enemies,” Mr Agongo said, explaining: “It’s difficult for you to even know you are an enemy when you are talking to him.”

He said Mr Mahama “is ready to support everybody and anybody to evolve to become the best,” adding: “I have never heard His Excellency John Dramani Mahama try to crucify anybody.”

Buttressing his assertion, Mr Agongo recounted what he called “a secret”: “There were times that Kennedy Agyapong’s money was even locked. He did some business with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), and his money was locked, and he went to JM, and JM made them pay him under the previous NDC government.”

Mr Agongo noted that Mr Mahama intervened “not because of him [Kennedy Agyapong] but because he [Mahama] knows he [Kennedy Agyapong] is a businessman upon whom other lives depend, but if you go back to what Kennedy Agyapong did to His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, he wouldn’t have supported him.”

“So, I’ve known him [John Mahama] and I know the kindness of his heart and his focus: how to build a legacy, how to make Ghana self-sufficient, so, every recruitment he makes, every employment and ministerial appointment that he gives, he tells you, ‘You have to serve the people of Ghana’” Mr Agongo noted.