The General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has punched holes into a bribery allegation leveled against President John Mahama.
The NPP on Tuesday, November 29 alleged that Mahama and his sibling attempted inducing its Northern regional Chairman, Daniel Bugri Naabu with two SUVs, GHS3.3 million, GHS500,000 in October this year.
The said goodies, according to Mustapha Hamid, the spokesperson of the flag bearer of the NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo were meant to cajole Mr. Naabu to ditch the party and launch scathing tribalistic assault on Akufo-Addo, labeling him as intolerant to people from the Northern extraction.
“It’s terribly sad. This country is in serious trouble, we need to rescue this country from serious trouble. The presidency has been so depraved, so muddied, so dirty that I tell you in all sincerity as a Ghanaian that I feel terribly sad as a Ghanaian,” he said.
But reacting to the allegations on Wednesday, Mr. Nketia said Mr. Naabu lacks the necessary qualities that will compel Mahama to seek his help in the race to the Flagstaff House.
According to him, claims of the president and his sibling bribing Mr. Naabu is incomprehensible as he is not worth even Gh¢10.
“…If I have Gh¢10 to pay or to bribe anybody to speak for me, it is not Bugri Naabu that I’ll be wasting that money on. NPP itself knows,” said Nketia in an interview with Accra-based Class FM.
“And this issue where he cannot even speak for himself shows that he cannot even be speaking for anybody. A person who cannot even speak for himself, will not be able to speak for another person. I think that if you are a person who people would want to buy, then you must demonstrate that you can even speak on matters concerning you.”
Meanwhile, a legal practitioner, Yaw Oppong has urged the presidency to officially respond to the bribery allegations as “these are serious claims against the president of the country.”
“It is a rebuttable presumption; action must be taken against the claims or they could be assumed to be true,” he added.
