Frank Annoh-Dompreh, Majority Chief Whip, has restated the support of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for Bryan Acheampong, a colleague MP and Minister for Food and Agriculture.
Bryan Acheampong after making some controversial comments last Saturday at a party event in Mpraeso, stating among others that the NPP was never going to hand over power to the National Democratic Congress after the 2024 polls, has been criticized by the opposition party (NDC).
The NDC, has since described the statement as reckless and treasonable and called for the minister’s arrest.
The NPP in a response, made it clear that they stand by the minister’s comment and that he was responding to similar comments by opposition leaders, including ones by John Mahama and Asiedu Nketiah, the former President and NDC National Chairman, respectively.
Annoh-Dompreh, who was at the event where Bryan spoke, tweeted his support for the party fellow, after many criticisms for his (Bryan Acheampong) speech were making news.
“Leave Bryan alone, he said nothing new. The entire Party & the parliamentary Caucus, is fully associated with him. The hypocrisy of our colleagues is just nauseating often times.”
Annoh-Dompreh
Ahiagbah Speaks In Support Of Bryan Acheampong
The Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagbah, said the NPP has always played by the rules in elections. He averred the governing party intends to continue doing that in the next general elections.
“As Democrats, the NPP has played by the rules since 1992 and we intend to continue. It is our opponent who is proud and touting its revolutionary roots, that needs to tone down and play by the rules… 2024 will be free & fair.”
Richard Ahiagbah
Mr. Ahiagbah’s comments come after the NDC criticized the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong, for stating that the NPP would not hand over power to the NDC. Bryan Acheampong assured members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that the economy will bounce back, as he claimed the government is working to secure a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Hopefully, he said, by June this year the deal will be closed, a situation that will lead to the resurgence of the economy.
“NDC party will collapse. If the NDC dares to use threats, Violence and foolishness in the 2024 election, we will let them know we have the men. We will show them that we have the men. We have the men! It will never happen that we the NPP will stand on a platform to hand over power to the NDC, it will never happen. We will make sure NPP remain in government at all cost.
“Now with the way things are changing, the economy will bounce back again. I am telling you that we are going to come around that curve and we are going to win the 2024 elections hands down.”
Bryan Acheampong
The General Secretary of the NDC, Fifi Kwetey, responded to the comments of Bryan Acheampong and suggested he be arrested for such remarks.
“The NDC condemns this utterly reckless and treasonable comment, in no uncertain terms. We note that Bryan Acheampong is the latest of high-ranking official of the NPP, to make such brazen statement that reveals the party’s deep-seated determination to subvert Ghana’s democratic order.
“At an NPP delegates conference in Kumasi in 2021, President Akufo-Addo expressed his determination to ‘hand over to an NPP Government in 2025’. This eerily reminds every one of the Nana Addo-led desperate attempts to steal the 2008 elections in the strongroom of the electoral commission and other attempts by his desperate party to put dead bodies in water bodies in the Volta region, all with a view to subverting the will of the people in that critical election.”
Fifi Kwetey
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