Pollster Ben Ephson has accused the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Ashanti Region Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Chairman Wontumi), of vote-buying in the party’s recently concluded regional elections.
Mr Ephson, who projected Chairman Wontumi’s defeat, said he would have lost the votes if not for the inducement.
He said this during an interview with Eric Mawuena Egberta on the Hot Edition on 3FM.
“We think that the distribution of money carried the day. I don’t think that the delegates, without inducements, would have voted for a Chairman under whose watch the NPP’s percentage of votes in the Ashanti moved from 76 per cent in 2016 to 71.6 per cent in 2020. Two, somebody who thinks he has the hundred of thousands, rented an office for the regional NPP, he defaulted in payment of rent and the party’s properties are thrown out. But for inducement, who would have retained such a national Chairman?”
Meanwhile, Chairman Wontumi has been advised that he must adjust his mentality if the NPP is to break the 8-year cycle in the general elections of 2024.
Some unhappy NPP serial callers in the Ashanti region made this call. Chairman Wontumi was the target of the serial callers’ campaign.
“Now that the election is finished, I suppose we are all here as a family, we appreciate those who supported us and those who did not support us,” Abilele, the party’s spokesperson, told journalists following the elections in Kumasi on Monday, May 30. If the Chairman, who was re-elected, is listening, what we’re saying is that we need a change from him.
“He should change his attitude because if he doesn’t change his attitude then I don’t believe the breaking the 8, we are going to break that 8.”
Source: Mybryttnewsroom.com/Joseph Asare
