The Former Member of Parliament for Suhum Constituency in the Eastern Region, Frederick Opare Ansah has vindicated Kontihen Kofi Oboh, a broadcast journalist in the region
Before the 2020 general elections, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) held many press conferences and spoke about former President John Dramani Mahama.
For this reason, Kontihen Kofi Oboh suggested that the NPP government should propagate the good works they have done to enable Ghanaians to give them another nod to continue to govern the country.
He was of the view that talking about former President Mahama would make him popular to garner more votes but some journalists in the region thought he hated NPP.
Lo and behold, NDC nearly caused harm to the NPP by getting over 6 million votes in the 2020 elections. Meanwhile, the NPP eventually won the 2016 elections with over 1 million votes.
“We all knew what NDC said about then flagbearer of NPP and now the President of Ghana, Nana Addo, that he was too short and couldn’t be a President, and those things made him popular to humiliate them in 2016, and the same thing nearly occurred to the NPP in the 2020 elections,” he added.
After many suggestions from Kofi Oboh on one of the Eastern Regional Media platforms, someone forwarded it to one of the NPP executives in the region.
Four years down the lane, the journalist has been vindicated by Frederick Opare Ansah, a renowned politician in Ghana.
On Sunday, September 15, 2024, the NPP executives in Suhum Constituency, led by their Parliamentary Candidate, organized a mega health walk exercise to energize the base to bring floating voters on board to vote for them in the upcoming December 7 polls.
When addressing the NPP faithful in Suhum, the former Member of Parliament for the Constituency, Frederick Opare Ansah recounted how an independent parliamentary made him lose the 2008 election.
According to him, during their 2008 campaign wherever they went, they mentioned the name of the independent parliamentary candidate, and that made him popular and grabbed over 4,000 votes.
“So, going into the 2012 election, they developed a strategy and stopped mentioning his name in their campaign, and it helped them win the elections by a big margin,” revealed Opare Ansah.
The former Suhum MP used the opportunity to advise the NPP members in the area, not to mention the name of Ɔboafo Kwadjo Asante, who has turned his back on them and is going independent to contest the Parliamentary seat.
“In doing so, nobody would hear of him, and it would give an advantage to the NPP’s Parliamentary Candidate, Frank Asiedu Bekoe, popularly known as ‘Protozoa,’ to retain the seat for them,” he noted.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh
Source// Obohnewsonline.com.
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