Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the late Former Vice President, Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur as a perfect gentleman who served the nation with distinction.

Mr. Mahama who was in Berlin, Germany on official duties cut his trip short following the sudden death of his former Vice was at his residence with his wife, Lordina on Sunday afternoon to commiserate with Mrs. Matilda Amissah-Arthur and the family of his former Vice President.

He was accompanied by some senior officials of the Flagstaff House during his tenure, former Ministers of State and some National Executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), president Mahama consoled the widow and family, signed the Book of Condolence and eulogized his former VP.

Speaking to the family and later to journalists, the former President noted that “Paa Kwesi was not only my Vice President, we had worked together for a long time from when I was the Deputy Minister for Communication and he was the Deputy Minister of Finance. When Professor Atta Mills nominated me as his running mate, Paa Kwesi was instrumental in helping to raise funding and financing for the campaign. He was made the Governor of the Bank of Ghana. That was when I got even closer to him because he was the Governor of the Bank of Ghana and I was the Chair of the Economic Management Team and so at all the Economic Management meetings, we discussed how to handle the economy.”

Mr. Mahama described his late Vice President as a man who knew what he was about, indicating that he was a very good choice as Vice President.

“He served with distinction, he was a perfect gentleman. Indeed people say I have the same disposition as him and so they wondered how two gentlemen could govern a country, but I must say that his experience and a lot of practical knowledge he has in project implementation made us able to achieve within four years, some of the successes that we achieved as a government.”

The former president also prayed for strength for the deceased’s wife and family.