He said the business mogul funded the bulk of his medical treatment abroad when there was no hope.

“It was a life and death situation and he saved my life. Sam coughed out a chunk of the money I needed for my surgery in Europe; not once, but twice.

The former Editor of the Accra Daily Mail had contracted a life-threatening ailment that required him to undergo brain surgery in order to survive.

He couldn’t single-handedly foot the bills because it was costly. It took the benevolence of Mr Jonah, for the surgery to be carried out.

“After the initial surgery, I had to do a follow-up surgery, and it was Sam who coughed out the money for me,” Mr Attah said.

He made the remarks during an interview with JoyNews’ Raymond Acquah, on the latest edition of Ghana’s Greatest documentary, which chronicles the life of the business mogul .

Mr Attah challenged negative assertions which have been made against the business mogul in a bid to tarnish his image.

Alhaji Haruna Atta stressed that there’s no perfect person, “perfection is an idealism that doesn’t exist.”

“We should learn to give praise where praise is due. No human being is perfect even the person doing the accusation is not perfect. But if I am to say what is a good man, Sam is a good man. He’s done that to me,” he said.

“Others helped here and there but the bulk of the money I needed to go to Europe, he gave to me. He could have said he didn’t have it or he could have said he had other priorities but he wired it to me.

“Then, I didn’t have a foreign account and he was even laughing at me because of that, but he wired the money to a friend’s account and we paid the hospital bills in Austria,” he added.

Aside from his generosity, Mr Jonah has been praised for his exceptional leadership skills.

Board Chairman of the United Bank for Africa (Ghana), Kweku Awotwi has also touted the business mogul’s dynamic leadership skills exhibited during his time at the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation now AngloGold Ashanti.

Mr Awotwi who used to serve as a leader for the firm’s Business Development and Strategy team, stated that the statesman was resourceful, goal-oriented, and resolute when he [Sam Jonah] was Executive President.

He believes Mr Jonah is a true leader who puts people first in all his undertakings.

The full documentary airs tonight at 8:00 pm on the JoyNews channel.

Alhaji Attah’s book is expected to generate interest in the story of the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress.

The 331-page book with the title of ‘Awhene Pa Nkasa. Standing with JDM’ gives a clear picture of what the book will talk about.

It is in two parts: “The Homeland Briefs” and the “Diplomatic Briefs”.

Independent of each other, they are held together by what the author calls the “Mahamarabilia” thread – a word he invented to describe his privileged proximity to the 4th President of the 4th Republic of Ghana.

Part One has 42 chapters that highlight events like Dumsor, Gitmo 2, Montie 3, Cheating at Elections, Lying and Blaming it on Mahama, Destroying friends and Family and much, much more…It also has intellectual discourses on Traditional Governance and the Ballot Box, Kigali (dangers that could be awaiting Ghana in this Election Year), Ebola and Covid-19 and the history of Ghana’s “coodetas” in new lights that would surprise and reveal…

Part Two, with 25 chapters, is devoted entirely to the author’s diplomatic service and reads sometimes like a course book on practical diplomacy and other times like a travelogue with intriguing insights. We come across his encounter with a sex change person (man to woman) and how his life was nearly cut short when his official car and ostrich crashed into each other on the highway from Windhoek to Gaborone. Part Two is so suffused with humour that it is difficult to tell whether he is pulling the reader’s leg or stating facts.

Most of the chapters are illustrated with unique pictures that could stand on their own as stories. It is a beautifully designed book, well laid out reader-friendly. For the first time, a modern version of adinkra, called adinshia, has had public airing in the book…

What ever your political persuasion is, your intellect will make you love this beautiful book on Mr Mahama.