National Chairman of the People's National Convention (PNC), Bernard Anbataayela Mornah, has called for a probe into former President Jerry John Rawlings' claims about businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome.

The former president alleges Mr Woyome took €500,000 in his (Rawlings’) name from an European group.

He labeled Woyome a "criminal" during an interview on GH One on Friday, March 18.

“I’m glad the NPP was able to respond to that character who was released or cleared of his criminal tendencies; the one they call – what’s his name? – Woyome. I heard somewhere that he said that I’m aware of the millions of dollars that he spent on the party. I’m not aware of any such millions of dollars he spent on the party. I am aware of the half-a-million euros he took from a foreign European group in my name; I never saw a penny of it. The one-and-a-half million euros he took from that same group, supposedly on behalf of the party, he’s got to account for it," he stated.

But the self-styled NDC financier, who was absolved of wrongdoing in receiving GHc51.2 million from the state in the landmark Judgement Debt saga, said he was never in the country during the incipient years of the Fourth Republic and only came to Ghana “five months to the tail end of his regime”.

He said the former president has made his statements time without number.

“What the former president is saying now is no news...He has said it before; it’s false and was denied by Ingeborg Smith, the Honorary Consul of Austria to Ghana...This is not the first time he is speaking after a ruling in my favour. God rules in the affairs of men,” Mr Woyome said in a statement regarding the former president's pronouncements.

Contributing to discussions on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" Morning show, the PNC National Chairman questioned Mr. Rawlings' accusations saying "If the people gave money and you said the money did not come to you. What work did you do for the people that they needed to give you that amount of money? It also needs probe…For what work? Why were they giving it to you? So that one also requires a lot of investigations; why were they giving that money and for what purposes?”

He further opined that Mr. Rawlings and Woyome "are keeping us in the dark. They should come out in the open. And Rawlings should tell us what work he did to be able to earn that money and what was the purpose of the money, and why did it pass through Woyome and not through any other person.”

“I think if Rawlings has a problem with Woyome going to retrieve some money in his name, it should be his personal fight," Bernard Mornah added.