Dr. Stephen Amoah, the Member of Parliament for Nhyiaeso, has slammed colleague NPP MPs who have pulicly declared their support for former vice president, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia ahead of the party’s flalgbearership race early next year.
According to him, some of his fellow lawmakers of applying unfair treatment to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia after they recently announced their support for him.
Speaking in an interview with an Accra based radio station, Dr. Amoah claimed that the recent support for Dr. Bawumia by 63 MPs from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is “psychological propaganda” intended to sway public opinion before the party’s presidential primaries.
“If you want to be elected into power, you need to be honest and uphold integrity. They are claiming that more than 60 MPs support Bawumia, but only about 20 were present at the press conference. The deception is too much; they have realized they would lose the election.
“They want to use psychological warfare, but we will see the results on election day. Some of the MPs who have written their names on the list have bought cars for Ken Agyapong’s team. The politics of lies, deception, and propaganda are in the past. Ghanaians are awake now; that won’t change their minds about who to vote for. They are clearly showing that they have lost the elections,” he said.
He went on to say that the action breaches vote confidentiality and compromises the party’s internal democracy.
“I dare them to conduct a secret ballot with the 63 MPs, and if Bawumia wins, I will stop supporting Kennedy Agyapong. This is psychological propaganda. Ken has already won the election. I know someone whose name was forcefully added to the list. What they are doing is even against the law by writing people’s names to join a camp. Voting is private, which means they cannot even rule the country. The secrecy of our vote is a legal mandate, and what the parliamentarians are doing is against the law,” the MP added.
63 members of the NPP parliament publicly endorsed Dr. Bawumia on Thursday, calling him the best candidate to guide the party to victory in 2028.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
