Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has alleged that some members of his party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are conniving with some other persons close to Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to pitch him against the President, Nana Akufo-Addo and the leadership of the party.
Speaking on Adom TV’s Badwam program Tuesday, Mr. Agyapong cited similar instances where he had been misquoted by persons he suspects are in the NPP.
Such persons according to him, made insinuations to the effect that he wanted all NPP loyalists to reject Akufo-Addo’s appointees.
A repeat of that instance he said, is what is happening now where malicious persons are trying to create tension between the Asantehene and the President.
“From the way people are acting, it may be someone else tomorrow, and we need to speak to these issues. They put it on their social media platform claiming that I have said they should vote against anyone who Akufo-Addo has appointed……I was shown the write-up from social media and I can tell you, it wasn’t an NDC member who wrote that. They are sowing a bad seed,” he noted.
He added, “it is the same thing that happened in Otumfuo’s case. I saw a video with the claims about Akyems not respecting Ashantis and wanting power. If that’s the case, why won’t you base on Ofori Atta’s era in Kyebi or JB Danquah’s era, why use Akufo-Addo’s father’s era? We can’t live in a nation like that, it won’t help us…….It is dangerous and they are succeeding and we have to stop this.”
He advised the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to be wary of persons around him who may want to create enmity between himself and the leadership of the NPP just to satisfy their selfish interests.
“In the Asantehene’s palace, I must make it clear to him that he won’t get everyone to fully support him. All of them have their political interest. He should be careful. Not all those he works with are 100 percent NPP or NDC. ……I’m saying that there are some elements in the NPP that are doing that,” the Assin Central legislator stressed.
“For some people, it should never be anyone else if it is not them. With all due respect, Nana, please be careful of those who come and talk to you because they know the relationship between you and Akufo Addo and may work with some bad nuts in NPP to destroy the Asantehene and the president,” he cautioned.
He however pleaded that the King of the Ashanti Kingdom tamper justice with mercy and overlook the issue.
“We are pleading with Otumfuo to have patience and be careful. He should remember that much as he is angry, most of his loyalists belong to the NPP so we plead that he doesn’t allow the devil succeed,” Mr. Agyapong begged.
Background
There were media reports suggesting that the Asantehene was angry because of claims that some persons close to the government are attempting to pitch him [Otumfuo] against the Akyem tribe [in the Eastern Region].
The reports claimed that John Boadu, who is contesting for the substantive General Secretary position of the NPP, had gone to the Manhyia Palace last to seek Otumfuo’s blessing when the incident occurred.
According to Mr. Boadu, he was accompanied by the NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, and a host of other NPP stalwarts.
Dr. Nana Agyenim Boateng, President of the Concerned Youth of Ashanti, following the reports accused former Director of the Danquah Institute and the Executive Secretary to the President, Asante Bediatuo of speaking ill and undermining the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.
According to Dr. Agyenim Boateng, all the negative things being said about the Asantehene by the two individuals have contributed to the Monarch’s anger.
Gabby Otchere Darko has since dismissed the allegations, indicating that he is not ‘stupid’ so much so that he would work against his own interest and incite his mother’s people (Akyems) against his father’s people (Asantes).
President Akufo-Addo and some NPP ‘bigwigs’, since the incident, have visited the Asantehene at his Manhyia palace to plead and have discussions with him.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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Dr. Nana Agyenim Boateng, President of the Concerned Youth of Ashanti---He's no doctor please. Don't address him as such.
Is Otumfo God/ Its amuses me when he ask like one. Only God is righteous. Someone should tell him so.He is involved in various deals and still wants to be covered. Pleas expose him he goes wrong against the Law and we as the subject must understand and stop seeing him as God. Otumfo de3 yentu no fo what? who under the sun cannot be advised
THIS ASANTEHENE DOESNT MEASURE UP TO HIS ILLUSTRIOUS PREDEDCESSORS, IN INTEGRITY, HONESTY AND CHARACTER!!! PERIOD!!! WHEN DID A WHOLE REGALIA OF ANA ASANTEHEN DISAPPEAR INTO THIN AIR IN EUROPE; OR LARGE SUMS OF MONEY WERE CARRIED MANUALLY INTO BANKS??? AND THERE ARE A LOT OF STORIES ABOUT HIM AND HIS CROOKED WAYS AND THERE WILL SOON BE MORE!!! HE IS NOT GOD AND HE MUST KNOW THAT EVENM IN GREAT BRITAIN WHERE THERE IS A STRONGER MONARCHY PEOPLE SAY IT AS IT IS TO THE QUEEN. OTUMFFUOR MY FOOT!!!. THE NDC CNA CONCOCT AND DEVISE AND PLAN ALL SORTS OF MACHIAVELLIAAN TRICKS; THEY WILL FAIL AND THEY KNOW THEY HAVE FAILED AND ARE STILL FAILING!!!!!
MAHAMA APPOINTEES CORRUPTION AND THE DOUBLE SALARY SCANDAL OF MAHAMA MPS IS THE CAUSE OF TENSION BETWEEN MANHYIA AND JUBILEE HOUSE. SOME OF THE CORRUPT OFFICIAL KNOW VERY WELL THAT THEY MIGHT END UP IN PRISON. THEY HAVE THEREFORE RESORTED TO TRADITIONAL LEADERS TO PLEAD WITH AKUFFO ADDO TO STOP THE INVESTIGATION. THE NDC APPOINTEES KNOW THAT NONE OF THE TRADITIONAL LEADERS COULD INFLUENCE JUBILEE HOUSE TO SEEK CLEMENCY EXCEPT MANHYIA AND THEREFORE TROOPING TO MANHYIA FOR COVER. THE MOVE IS TOTALLY ADVERSE TO THE INTEREST OF NPP GOVERNMENT, THE WELFARE OF GHANAIANS AND DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA. IF THIS IS TRUE THEN THEN THE TENSION BETWEEN TRADITIONAL LEADERS AND JUBILEE HOUSE IS JUSTIFIED. IT VERY VERY DISGRACEFUL AND HARMFUL FOR JUBILEE HOUSE TO INTERFERE IN THE WORK OF NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, POLICE AND JUDICIALLY. AND IT IS UNWISE AND DANGEROUS FOR ANY BODY TO PUT PRESSURE ON GOVERNMENT TO DO ANYTHING UNHEALTHY TO OUR DEMOCRACY. ANY ATTEMPT TO DO THAT WILL CAUSE NPP TO FAIL JUST AS NDC DID. IT CREATE A SITUATION WHERE GHANAIANS WILL LOOSE FAITH IN POLITICIANS AND CONSIDER ALL OF THEM ROT. THE CONSEQUENCE OF SUCH ENVIRONEMENT GENERETE A SITUATION WHERE PEOPLE DISREGARD THE IMPORTANCE OF INSTITUTION AND RESORT TO CHAOS SOLUTION OF THEIR PROBLEMS. THE POLITICAL CONDITION WE EXPERINCE IN THE LATE 1970S AND 1980 WAS A RESULT OF SUCH DEVELOPMENT IN THE IN THE NATION. GHANAIANS NEARLY LOST HOPE IN DEMOCRY WITH MAHAMA GOVERNMENT. THANK GOD NPP WON POWER TO REVIVE OUR HOPE. WE MUST ALL SUPPORT NPP TO WORK. THE CHIEFS AND THE ASOFO CAN DO BETTER TO SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT TO ACHIEVE ITS TARGET. THEY SHOULD REFRAIN FROM THE NEGATIVE TENDENCY OF PLEADING FOR CRIMES TO PERSIST IN THE SOCIETY. IT IS UNFORTUNATE OUR SOME OF OUR LEADERS AGREED TO PLEAD FOR CORRUPT POLITICIANS. AN ATTEMPT TO PLEAD FOR CORRUPT POLITICIAN MAKES THE ONE WHO PLEADS ALSO CORRUPT. THEY LOSE THE RESPECT OF THEIR OWN SUBJECT SINCE SUCH ACTIONS ARE NEVER KEPT SECRETE. I ADMIRE THOSE IN NPP WHO WORK ACCORDING TO PRINCIPLE AND NOT THE DIRECTION OF THEIR STOMACH NOR UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ANY REMOTE TRADITION. THOUGH THE NPP GOVERNMENT DOES NOT NEED TO PICK ANY CONFLICT WITH ANY TRADITIONAL LEADER, GHANAIANS EXPECT THE GOVERNMENT TO BE FOCUSED AND INDEPENDENT. MANY GHANAIANS KNOW HOW THEIR COMMUNITIES HAVE BECOME UNDEVELOPED EVEN, THOUGH THEIR TRADITIONAL LEADERS WERE IN BED WITH THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT. THEY DO NOT EXPECT THE SAME TO HAPPEN WITH THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT. AKUFFO ADDO LOST TO BECOME PRESIDENT FOR THREE TIMES NOT BECAUSE GHANAIANS JUDGE HIM INCOMPETENT BUT BECAUSE THEY FEAR THE INFLUENCE OF SOME PARTICULAR TRADITIONAL LEADERS. KUMASI AND ASHANTI VOTED FOR AKUFFO ADDO NOT BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO MAKE HIM AN ASANTE BUT BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE HE IS COMPETENT TO GOVERN UNDER THE RULE OF LAW AND FAIRNESS WHICH THEY HAVE SUFFERED SINCE THE ORIGIN OF PNDC/NDC. MANY ASHANTIS ARE HARDWORKING PEOPLE. THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN SUCCEED WHEN THEY COMPETE IN AN OPEN SOCIETY ON LEVEL GROUND. THEY NEED A GOOD GOVERNMENT NOT ASHANTI GOVERNMENT. MANY OF THEM HATED NDC BECAUSE IT WAS CORRUPT. THIS DOUBLE SALARY SCANDAL AND THE WIDESPREAD CORRUPTION MAKES MAHAMA NDC GOVERNMENT SHAMEFUL AND ***barred word***. ITS VINDICATE THE ASHANTIS FOR THEIR STRONG HATRED FOR NDC HYPOCRISY. ANY ATTEMPT BY AKUFFO GOVERNMENT TO OVERLOOK THE CORRUPTION OF NDC GOVERNMENT WILL INCUR THE WRATH OF THE ASHANTI ELECTORATES IN 2020 ELECTIONS. WHEN ALL GHANA BECAME AFRAID TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST OPPRESSIVE RULE, KUMASI STOOD TO SHOUT AGAINST ANY OPPRESSION AND INJUSTICE. WE RESPECT AND LOVE OUR KING BUT WE DECIDE FOR OURSELVES. WE EXPECT OUR LEADERS TO BE DIPLOMATIC BUT WE CHOOSE TO BE ROUGH. AND THAT IS THE BASIS OF OUR COURAGE AND FEARLESSNESS. MR PRESIDENT JUST DO WHAT WE ELECT YOU TO DO. WE DID NOT VOTE IN A VACUUM. WE VOTED FOR A PURPOSE CARRY OUT THAT MANDATE LEST YOU WILL REGRET IN 2020.
Yes you're are ***barred word***. Yes, you are. All you the Akyem mafia has sought over the years is to get political power, enrich yourselves and seek dominance over all others. Just one year and the evidence of this is overwhelming. How many akufos, ofori attas and Addos don't we have in this government? Akufo here, ofori attack there, addo everywhere. You Gabby was deliberately kept in the back to do take all the loot from the sea of akyem appointees and all other appointees and stash it for the akyem mafia. You think we don't know this? You want to be seen as private so that no one can question your source of wealth. The loads of bags of dollars you have been receiving are part of anas' next exposé. Wait and see.
Ken be mindful of protocol, you cannot address or advice Asantehene directly. You can address or advice his courtiers to carry a message to him. I know you mean well, and it was unintentional. I thought I should point this out to you.
1) The Akyem Mafia were behind the fake Free Press publication after the Supreme Court Petition accusing Otumfuor of bribing the judges on President Mahama’s behalf. 2) Bediatuo had an open quarrel with Madam Georgia of Georgia Hotel, at her restaurant at Roman Ridge because he was insulting Otumfuor in public. Bediatuo later said he was just recounting history that Otumfuor’s predecessors head was cut by the Akyems and the skull is still in the Kyebi palace. 3) Ken Ofori Atta’s partner Templeton was prompted to ask Otumfuor a rude question at an investment forum in London in 2013. Otumfuor protested to Nana Addo on this matter. 4) Recently in SA, when Ken Ofori Atta was invited to call on Otumfuor who was there for medical review, he rudely said he was not in SA to be “greeting chiefs.” 5) Nana Addo was in Kumasi last weekend for a major national event – May day. He did not have the courtesy to call on the Otumfuor or even send to greet him. 6) Two incidents, one in UK and one in SA are also cited among Otumfuor’s beefs. The 1st is that, recent allegations of money laundering in UK were spread by the “Akyem mafia”. 2nd is that, news about Otumfuor buying a palatial residence in SA spread into the media only after Nana Addo visited him accompanied by Bediatuo and some others of the Akyem Mafia. Noting that former Presidents Kufuor and Mahama had visited him at the same residence without any media announcement
Now some history : UGCC broke down in 1952... Busia then formed the Ghana congress party (GCP) and launched it at bekwai. In 1954 some ppl (including then otumfuo Agyemang Prempeh with his money worth seventy million pounds ) formed the NLM. When elections was held NLM had some seats and tho busia lost his seat,NLM offered him a seat. We had the Ga shefi mekpe (meaning the Ga youth),the togoland congress,Ghana muslims counsel--why Suame in Kumasi is so important in our history,the northern people's party.NLM was the Ashanti branch... The constellation of the above groups formed the UP. There was no UGCC and nothing like that at the time.UGCC is in no way connected to UP In the scheme of things,Ashanti and northern regions were not part of the colony...so all the people who claim they were fighting for independence were the coastal regions and greater parts of the eastern region who were under the then colony. Ashanti's joined the battle for independence after the Second World War when otumfuo went to Accra... It was then that he said they would join the euphoria to be part of the struggle for independence. So strictly speaking,Ashanti and northern regions were not part of the colony. 1947-formation of ugcc 1949-formation of cpp 1951-breakdown of ugcc /defunct 1952--formation of Ghana congress party by dr Busia and inaugurated at Bekwai in Ashanti 1954--formation of NLM (at manhyia but Baffuor Akoto spokesperson) 1957--avoidance of discrimination act by Kwame Nkrumah so formation of UP due to dissolution of all ethnic and religious based parties
The Otumfuo is the king of Ghana,take it or leave it.there is a limit to akyem reign and am sure you are well aware the clock is ticking.its too late now. The processes for achieving bigger things takes a lot of time and Gabby and Bediatuo have already wasted a lot of time playing revenge.Thats why Npp will be disgraced under your leadership. I can not fathom a country where the president takes advice from Gabby and Bediatuo. What do they know about the party and history.just unruly dudettes parading lies and trying to amass wealth
I will bet you that because of your pettiness and vindictiveness,you will achieve very little in governance.the people who can help you in government are the very ppl you have sidelined.Sammy Crabbe is one of them.they rest you know already. Keep dining with your family and friends.your days are numbered and your will go down in history. Note very carefully that in spite of how u wish Kuffour s name down,you can never overtake him in achievement and that’s a fact u have to start getting used to.