Peter Nortsu-Kotoe, the member of parliament for Akatsi North, has denied being one of the NDC lawmakers who disobeyed the party’s leadership’s directives not to support president Akufo-ministry Addo’s candidates.
The lawmaker claimed in a statement that his attention has been drawn to a list of NDC MPs whose names were circulating on social media on Saturday, March 25, 2023, and who were suspected of disobeying party directives by voting to approve the president’s various ministerial nominees on Friday, March 24, 2023. His name just so happened to be the 14th and last on the list, despite being misspelled.
Mr. Nortsu-Kotoe noted that he is responding to “this wrongful accusation” because ever since he joined the NDC from its inception and on his entry to Parliament in 2013, he has never defied any instructions or directives from the Party. This, therefore, comes to him as a shock and an attempt to tarnish his image.
He disclosed that he has informed the General Secretary of his innocence and declared his readiness to subject himself to any internal investigation to clear his name.
Mr Nortsu-Kotoe further assured his supporters, rank and file of members of the NDC and the Branch and Constituency Executives of the Akatsi North Constituency not to be disturbed by “this calculated attempt to malign me.”
He prayed that in this period of Lent, God should fight “this battle for me as He has always done.”
“My tears and bitterness shall be a bath of generational curse on them that are behind this as it was on traitors and liars and wrongful accusers,” he cursed.