Mark Okraku Mantey has hit out against Blakk Rasta's opposition of his claim to the Deputy Minister of Tourism and Culture position.

With everyone else, but a few individuals, showing full support for Mark Okraku Mantey in his bid to get appointed as the deputy minister, Blakk Rasta has openly said that he does not think Mark is fit for the position.

Blakk Rasta, a former employee of Hitz FM, stated that his former boss cannot be given the position because he cannot be trusted.

“I will rule out Mark Okraku Mantey totally, he is a guy I don’t trust,” he said on Joy FM’s Showbiz A-Z to oppose 3Music Awards CEO Sadiq Abdulai Abu’s suggestion that the former President of the Creative Arts Council would be the right man for the position.

Okraku Mantey has now replied what he called an absurd claim.

According to him, it is high time for Ghanaians to stop antagonising each other.

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"I think we are ageing and we’re maturing. This attitude of his is becoming rampant and he must evolve. How many years can you always try to look down on the people you operate within?"

"You left here peacefully, you resigned, you used to send messages on our common platform and insult me… I swallowed all of that… I never fought him back.

“You spoke as an artiste on radio and spoke your views about Parliamentarians. Out of that, I accompanied you to Parliament as your leader at Hitz FM."

"After leaving here, he went to Peace FM and told Kwasi Aboagye that he wants me to fail as a Manager of Hitz FM and so if his presence will not let me fail, he will leave the business so that I fail. He said I was going to fail. That, I’m good at events, music but radio, I was going to fail.

“This thing about going around, destroying me, I’ve never replied him because I thought it wasn’t necessary but it has gotten to a point that I think that it is making him immature.”

Okraku Mantey then further maintained he is certain about his ability and willingness to serve in that capacity.

“The power is not in my hands, it’s in the hands of one man in the Jubilee House… I qualify to be that person but again, the power is not in my hands, the president means well so every decision he’d take, I’ll accept because he means well. I hear the president is looking for somebody who will take the creative part of the ministry and that’s why people are pushing for me,” he concluded.