Member of Parliament for Assin South, Reverend John Ntim Fordjour, has refuted accusations of distributing money with the intention of influencing voters during the recently concluded Assin North by-election in the Central Region.
He emphasised that he did not participate in any such activities and urged the public to dismiss such allegations.
In a recent Facebook post, the Deputy Education Minister stated that the allegation, purportedly spread by Joshua Akamba, the former National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress, is false.
“My attention has been drawn to a false and malicious allegation made by Joshua Akamba.”
“I wish to state categorically that I never engaged in vote buying nor did I share money or goods before or during the Assin North by-election.”
Claims of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) engaging in vote-buying during the by-election have been refuted and dismissed.
The opposition NDC, has accused the governing party of giving out monies to some constituents to woo them to cast their vote for Charles Opoku.
The Director of Communications for the NPP, Richard Ahiagbah says the claims are false.
In response to the allegation made by the NDC’s National Communications Officer Sammy Gyamfi on JoyNews, he said, “Sammy went on a little run there to talk about lies and government inducement or party inducement, you see, those things are just not true”.
He rather expressed worry for future elections if political parties would peddle falsehoods as done by the NDC.
He challenged the NDC to come clean on the supposed lies that the NPP is said to have told during their campaigns.
According to Mr Ahiagbah, the NDC rather peddled lies even in their central campaign message to the constituents.
“I can tell you two grand lies or perhaps three or even four that the NDC peddled. The central proposition to the people was that one – they [NDC] want them to vote for the NDC’s James Gyakye Quayson because government wants to remove him from Parliament so we [NPP] can have a way to legalise LGBTQ in Ghana – blatant falsehood but that was their message.”