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DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020
I paid twice more than my
opponent but I lost – Mpohor MP
BY KWAME MALCOL
THE DEFEATED
Member of Parliament
(MP) for
Mpohor, Mr Alex
Agyekum, says despite
paying double
the amount his opponent, Mr
John Saanie, paid to delegates during
the recent New Patriotic Party
(NPP) primaries, he lost.
Speaking to Kwame Malcolm
host of Radio.360’s flagship
morning programme, ;Yensom; in
Takoradi, Mr Agyekum said some
delegates had begun calling him to
apologise.
“If it is development [in Mpohor]
that delegates stood on to
vote, then no one can fault me
and will not have any basis because
from Mpohor, Dominase,
Trebuom, Manso, Adansie Line,
Mampong, Abotare Yie to Edanwiredukrom,
I made an extension
of electricity to the places in
2014,” he said.
He said in about 12 communities,
where there are no lights, “I
have made them erect poles and
only left with the cables. It was
only one community that was inaccessible,
Angu Domeabra. I
used my share of the Common
Fund to hire a bulldozer to carve a
• Mr Alex Agyekum, MP for Mpohor
road that tricycles (aboboyaa),
taxis nand tipper trucks ply; so for
development, Kwame, delegates
cannot fault me.
“At Dominase, the town used
to be flooded. I collaborated with
Benso Oil Palm Plantation
(BOPP), using an excavator, to divert
Butre River and you are
aware…so for development, no
one can fault me,” the defeated
MP lamented.
The MP also stated that he had
helped in raising the morale of the
members of the NPP in Mpohor
during his tenure.
“No one can say as of Saturday,
June 20, the day of the elections,
the chances of the NPP as
against other political parties were
low. So if you sum up all these
and assess the voting direction of
the delegates, then it means they
voted for other issues apart from
development that they themselves
can pinpoint.
“Let me, however, say this,
though it is unofficial, that it is
glaring that when there is voting,
monies exchange hands; and when
it comes to that too, the delegates
themselves will bear me witness,
the motivation I gave them to use
to buy water”; what my opponent
(John Saanie) offered, I offered
twice that amount so what could
they have used to vote against
me?” he quizzed
The MP said maybe someone
would say such inducements are illegal
but nobody in Ghana should
act like an ostrich that [nothing is
happening because] any voting at
any level, from the national level
to the regional level to whatever;
parties like National Democratic
Congress, NPP; if you are vying
for a position, you cannot say you
will not pay something to delegates,
at least, something small for
water.”
The defeated Mpohor legislator,
who is also the Chairman of
the Parliamentary Select Committee
on Youth and Sports, denied
reports of he demanding refund
of monies he paid delegates on
voting day, saying he would not
have stooped that low and anyone
who may have acted in such manner
using his name was unauthorized
by him.
The incumbent Member of
Parliament polled 100 votes, losing
to Mr Saanie, who polled 192
in the June 20 primaries in Mpohor
in the Western Region.
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