Founding Fathers of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region have denied the claims suggesting their endorsement of Dr. Afriyie Owusu Akoto, a presidential contender.
Recent media reports stated that the ex-Minister of Food and Agriculture had secured the support of the NPP’s founding figures earlier this week.
“The six are NPP founding fathers.” They were among those who helped create the party in 1992. They informed me that they would like to interact with me whenever I visited the Ashanti Region. They arrived as promised, and following our conversation, they offered their support for me. They probed me and asked about my vision for Ghana and the party.
They believed in my ideas and said I was still the greatest choice to represent the NPP. They stated that I have proved that I am a results-oriented individual capable of leading the party in the 2024 general elections,” Dr Afriyie Akoto is said to have stated in response to the gesture.
But in a statement dated August 7, the Chairman of the Founding Fathers, Kofi Obiri Yeboah, noted that as custodians of the party, they have not “openly declared support for any one particular candidate.”
“We therefore find that news item unfortunate, and we refute it as untrue,” the statement added.
Meanwhile, the Founding Fathers have called on Dr. Akoto to retract his statement with the urgency it deserves.
