Boakye Agyarko, a former Energy Minister under Akufo-Addo’s first administration has said, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a political party does not belong to one person unlike some other parties.
The Presidential candidate hopeful made the pronouncement when responding to the matters arising after President Akufo-Addo’s comment in an interview granted by OTEC Fm in Kumasi.
He said: “Some parties belong to individuals but per our tradition, this party does not belong to one person, it belongs to all of us. If one person says something and it doesn’t go well, it affects all of us. We apologize.
Mr. Agyarko said, the people of Kumasi needs to be pampered because they gave the party a lot of votes from that part of the country. “So what I’m asking is that they should tamper justice with mercy,” he stressed.
The NPP Presidential candidate hopeful described such pronouncement as an offensive one “To the people of Kwabire and everyone else who got offended by these statements, we apologize. This was one person’s utterances; the party does not belong to one person. The thing about this tradition and party is that it does not belong to one person”.
He further added, “The elders say, it is a king who is going into the public that has people dancing behind him, not the one returning. So I ask that you forgive us and consider the love you have for us because you have a great stake in the party, so you continue to vote for us and move forward together,
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in an interview on Kumasi-based OTEC FM said he does not care if the people of kwabre decide to vote against the NPP.
President Akufo-Addo in his response said; “people make those kinds of threats, me, they don’t frighten me. “There is no need for people to say if I do not do it, this or that. That is your own problem. Of course, I will fulfill my promises.
“But if it so happens that you decide to vote for the NDC, that is your problem, that is not mine. Nobody will hold your hand to thumbprint for any candidate, the most important thing is that I understand the responsibility and we will deal with it,” he stressed.
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