“You must try not to say it as it is especially when it points to a very important person,” he said on Accra-based Joy FM.

Mr. Baako has admitted to calling chiefs who endorse presidential candidates as unwise.

He however, insisted that his comments only sought to clarify that chiefs who have in recent times been promising presidential candidates certain percentage of votes from their area “lacked wisdom; I didn’t say they were not wise, I didn’t say they were foolish, I didn’t insult them.”

“I said they are not wise; I won’t lie because what they are doing lacks wisdom,” he said, adding that he is willing to apologise “if it is the language that is wrong.”

According Dr. Mr. Baako must exercise circumspection “because of the high reverence we give our chiefs and because of the society in which we are where when people speak or icons like himself can be imitated by young people.”

He indicated that “if your father is speaking to you and his mouth is smelling, you don’t tell your father his mouth his smelling.”

“You find a way of saying it and it amounts to the same thing so it could have been better if he had couched it in another way.”