Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has denied ever sponsoring a candidate within the governing New Patriotic Party to unseat the Majority Leader as a lawmaker for the Suame Constituency.
According to the NPP stalwart, he considers Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu a strong loyalist in the party and will never do such a thing to him.
The Suame MP, in an interview on Kumasi-based Sompa FM, accused the co-founder of the Danquah Institute of unsuccessfully sponsoring a candidate against him in the party’s parliamentary primaries leading to the 2016 elections.
"He wrote something for someone to go on his radio station [Asaase radio] and say that if I contest Suame seat again I will lose and that is why he is saying he won’t contest again. Gabby Otchere-Darko, have you contested an election before?" the Majority Leader asked.
"In 2016, these same people were hiding behind a candidate saying that if he wins the Suame primaries, he will lose the general election; then they sponsored a candidate against me and it didn’t work for them. I had the confidence of the President who, two days before the primaries said ‘no I want to come and speak to your [Suame] people’ but I told him to stop [because] I am in control of affairs…
"The President was very worried and he wanted to fly in the night to Suame but I had to tell him not to bother himself and God willing after the primaries those that Gabby Otchere-Darko and his people sponsored lost massively; their votes were not closer to what I had. I don’t know what Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko holds against me…," Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu stated.
But Gabby Asare Otchere Darko in a reply said on his Facebook timeline, November 15, "I have never sponsored any candidate against the Majority Leader for the Suame seat.
"I would never do such a thing to a person I considered a strong loyalist even within the NPP."
Source: ghanaweb.com
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This is exactly what the NDC has set you to do—fight among yourselves and weaken yourselves for the 2024 elections. Then they realize they can't win based on their performance during the previous administration. Ofori-Ata is credible, not corrupt, and Ghanaians know that. Prior to the crisis, the Ghanaian economy was thriving. I would only say yes to his resignation for political expediency and not for the mismanagement of the economy. Unfortunately, there has been too much noise from civil society and his own party demanding his resignation. The situation would have been much worse if the NDC had been in power, and Ghanaians are fully aware of it except for the NDC, which underrates them. The NDC is not campaigning for better policies that it intends to put in place if elected, but rather for disinformation about the NPP administration. I don't believe the vilification agenda of the NDC sinks with the electorate because they see the physical infrastructure going on across the country.