Bernard Allotey Jacobs has fired salvoes at the opposition National Democratic Congress for describing the over 60 percent votes for Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in the governing New Patriotic Party's presidential election as an "embarrassing vote of no confidence in his leadership".
The Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi says the result that the New Patriotic Party's flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, got in their just-ended election is a big shame.
According to an article authored by Sammy Gyamfi, "it is a big shame that, despite the unprecedented vote-buying and personal phone calls to delegates, a significant number of the NPP delegates totaling 74, 236 and constituting a whopping 39% voted against his candidature in the just-ended NPP primary. He was totally rejected in two regions (Central and Volta regions) and over 50 Constituencies of his own party".
He continued; "This makes him the first NPP flag-bearer to be elected by less than 62% of valid votes cast since the NPP expanded their electoral college in 2010. This is an embarrassing vote of no confidence in his leadership by almost 40% of delegates in his own party."
But to the former NDC Central Regional Chairman, Allotey Jacobs, Dr. Bawumia's 61 percent is impressive.
"Call it 61 percent; 61% can translate to 95 percent," he replied.
Allotey questioned the NDC's moral right to criticize Dr. Bawumia since, to him, the party manipulated their flagbearer election by making former President John Mahama the only candidate.
"You ambush, you stampede and manipulate your system to favour one person, then you come back and say that a clear case of true electoral process, someone gets 61 percent; you call it embarrassing. This is just a political rhetoric," he shot back while responding on Peace FM's morning show "Kokrokoo".
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Did Mahama even got 100% after all the manipulations.
Sefa Kayi, be ashamed of hosting only people who support your political direction in your so called show. So people like Alotey and Kwaku baako who know next to nothing are your favourite guests to champion your NPP course. Wise up.
Why did Duffuor opt out from the race? If the whole process of electing a flag bearer was transparent this man would have remained in the race. Anyway this is not surprising since it's the trademark of NDC. How Attah Mills became the party's flag bearer in 2000( swedru declaration); fonkar and mills war; Mahama succeeding Mills without election etc. Only the gullibles will challenge Alotey Jacob's submission
This guy was fired from NDC for stealing campaign money which affected their electoral fortunes in 2016. Ever since he has become their bitterest critic and therefore anything coming from him about NDC is always negative. Not that NDC deserves sympathy from Ghanaians because it was our money they stole to use for campaign. But just as the maids in Cecelia Dapaah's case who stole from a fellow teef, a teeef is still a teeef! Peacefm will do a very good job by getting him off the panel. He is not to be taken serious. We need objective analysis, not someone on a personal vendetta against his former employers. We are not interested in the scores you want ot settle with your corrupt former paymasters. NDC/NPP are corrupt parties and Ghanaians should shelve ethnic and parochial interests and boot them out of power or else we should forget about developing this country.