The acting Upper West Regional Minister is pushing delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the region to vote for his preferred candidate in the Chairmanship race.
Amidu Issahaku has been caught on tape lobbying for one Hafiz Bin Saali ahead of the party’s regional elections Monday.
“…and so in my view, we should support Hafiz and his team…,” he said.
He accepts that he is acting on his own volition and not on the orders of the President but he explains his motives, saying that he doesn’t want “anyone to come and undermine the government”.
“Hafiz has been Regional Youth Organiser, First Vice and Second Vice, and politics, you have to reward people who have suffered…”
“Nobody should come and get it easy because they have money,” he said. Mr Issahaku has confirmed to Joy News that the voice in the tape is his but he maintains that it was a private conversation and not a public statement.
“…but once somebody has privately recorded me and brought it to public domain, I need to state the facts…” “It is true that it is my voice and I said that on conviction on some important reasons,” he stated.
He explains that Mr Saali, the one he was lobbying for has the necessary experience needed for the Chairmanship portfolio.
The NPP is holding its regional delegates congress, from April, 21 to 24 across the 10 regions to elect regional executives that would steer the party’s affairs toward election 2020.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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This is why Ghana media are irritating. This one too is news? When did a party's internal elections also became a national thing for you to publish this ***barred word*** thing. Is he not a human being and hasn't he also got his favorites eeii! But what is coming to this world? When you, Ghanaian media this man Akufo Addo you are trying to destroy fought for your freedom you now love those who used libel to shut you up to imprison you, to kill you and make those who freed you evil like your beloved ones.I now believe there is no hell anywhere but Africa, very wicked and destructive people. They don't care where they got the money from but the lexury and food infront of them is what is important to them. Very dishonest and ungrateful people. Did the media go there to cover problems to disunite or they were there to cover elections? Ghana media are very dishonest and disgraceful, I have a big problem with their reporting because they can set a peaceful nature into flames and the media owners also allow these people to use their medium for their own parochial interests forgetting when the flames starts they will also be involved. You don't employ people just because somebody introduced him/her but you need a background check to find out if the person is decent, respectful articulate