In a cruel punishing demonstration of how executive influence is weighing in on the side of Mr. Alan Cash, Mr. Raymond Okudzeto, the financial backbone of the North and South Tongu constituency, and founding member of the New Patriotic Party has had his delegates selection reversed.
North Tongu constituency chairman Mr. Prosper Agor and his secretary took the trouble of going to the Ridge residence of the venerable warrior of the NPP, and escorted him to Danquah Circle, in Accra, for his passport picture to be taken to complete the process for his delegates card.
They came back days later and with a lumps in their throats told Raymond that, unfortunately they had been asked to drop him. The name of the Regional Minister came to his lips, for who else will have the temerity to make such an order.
Mr. Okudzeto makes no bones about his support for Nana Akufo Addo and his wife Mrs. Lois Okudzeto, and actually attended the Abuakwa legislator’s fund-raising and donated handsomely to his war chest. Akufo Addo has lost one vote, which is equal to the entire North American delegates, which the Statesman newspaper believes will go the former Minister’s way.
From Volta to the Northern parts, down to the Central, and Western regions where he has a scant following, the Nana Akufo Addo campaign is haemorrhaging heavily. Poor tactics, aided by a surfeit of fatal miscalculations, have combined to take the shine off his last-minute push for the NPP top prize – presidential candidate of the NPP, which he hopes, would make him President.
Source: GhanaWeb
