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The Deputy Trade Minister, Murtala Mohammed in a shocking revelation has alleged that a cabinet minister in the Mahama-led administration is making frantic efforts to set up a colleague cabinet minister.

According to the Nanton MP, the said minister has bought a tablet and a mobile phone for a lady friend of the other cabinet minister to enable her secure him nude pictures of his colleague.

"I ask those sycophantic elements to ask the said MP whether it is ethical to buy a tablet and a mobile phone for a lady friend of a colleague cabinet Minister to get nude pictures of that colleague of his, available WhatsApp messages, text messages and audio. Those sycophants have no idea where they are dragging him to. They should not push me," he wrote on his Facebook wall.

This comment is in response to comments on social media following the Nanton MP's outburst on Diamond FM, a radio station in Tamale that one of his colleague MPs from the same region (Northern Region) is plotting to unseat him in 2016.

"Someone who said to three people, Murtala has not incurred my wrath, I simply don't want him to succeed: I just don't want him to succeed in life. Are you God, who the f**k are you...I have audios, I swear to God; I am a Muslim, a practicing Muslim and I will not swear if I don't have it. I spend a lot in my constituency: I have no business in anybody's constituency, what business do you have in my constituency. It is pathetic, absolutely pathetic: it's unethical, it's so funny, it's so stupid, it's so silly, it's nasty, it's un-Islamic for people of the same party to be sitting down and their intention is about how they can get someone out of Parliament," he said in the interview.

In addition to what he wrote on his facebook wall, the Nanton MP however apologised for his unsavoury remarks on Diamond FM saying: "I observed with regrettable coyness de numerous comments made on social media as well as on radio about my comments on Radio Diamond. Some of de comments are made by people who genuinely care for the truth and some unfortunately motivated by reasons known to their consciences. I had no doubt in mind that my comments were certainly going to provoke the kind of debate it provoked. For those who are genuinely hurt by my comments, I sincerely apologize to them. But for de said MP and those who think like him, I have no apology for them now and not ever".