The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Augustine Nana Kwasi Andrews has debunked rumours that he took a bribe from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2020 general elections.
A group in the NDC had accused Nana Kwasi of taking bribes from the NPP in 2020 Ghana’s general elections. The group said the party lost the elections to NPP because of the NDC Chairman’s decision to take money from their bitter rivals to manipulate the polls in the region.
But speaking to Oyerepa Online in an interview, Nana Kwasi stated that, those claims were false. He never took money from the NPP.
He explained that one of his contenders is peddling false claims against him. He wants to use trivial assertions to tarnish his hard-earned reputation.
“I have heard about those bribery allegations but it’s never true that I took money from NPP in the 2020 elections.”
“Sometimes I find it as an insult to our constituency executives and most of our polling agents because if you look at a party which previously was getting 400,000 plus votes in Ashanti, in 2020 we had 650,000 plus votes, we had 4 MPs, we increased the votes in Ashanti, so how can you say we took a bribe? Those who are making such allegations don’t understand the electoral process.”
“No single individual can sell elections, so there’s no iota of truth in those allegations.” He told stated.
Meanwhile, the council of elders of the NDC after an investigation into the matter rubbished those bribery claims.
Nana Kwasi said, “I’m very happy the party’s council of elders has come out to say that, there was nothing like a bribe.”
Source: Oyerepafmonline.com / Joseph Marfo
