He was one person who spoke his mind independently but was a team player.John was the first person performing his
duty as Head of the party's communication to have openly expressed his worries over the party's approach to certain delicate national issues.When BBC interviewed him on the «Positive Defiance» statement by Jerry Rawlings, unlike others, he cleverly explained the statement to cure planted mischiefs but courageously went on further to respectfully state that some of such statements would be managed to avoid misinterpretations etc.That interview was what penciled him down by the BBC network
as an intelligent
communicator.