2020 NPP primaries: I paid GHC 5k to 600 delegates but I lost – Owusu Aduomi
disclosesFormer Member of Parliament (MP) for Ejisu constituency, Mr Kwabena Owusu Aduomi has disclosed that, he paid some amount of money in the form of bribe to entice delegates to vote for him in the 2020 New Patriotic Party, (NPP) 2020 parliamentary primaries. According to Mr Aduomi, irrespective of paying the enticement fee, he lost the election to his strongest opponent.
“I paid a lot of money during the primaries. I paid GHc 5,000 to about 600 delegates but I lost the election.”
Mr Aduomi stated on Oyerepa Breakfast Time last Friday. He added that politics is an expensive venture and a game for the brave.“Let me tell you this, politics is very expensive.
That’s how huge an amount I paid just for people to endorse my candidature. It’s a game for the brave, he said.
It would be recalled that, Mr Aduomi, former deputy minister of roads and highways lost the Ejisu MP seat in the last NPP parliamentary primaries in 2020 to Lawyer John Kumah (incumbent Ejisu (MP).
John Ampontuah Kumah amassed 397 votes representing 55.99% as against Mr Kwabena Owusu – Aduomi votes of 307, representing 43.30% and Abena Pokua Amoah-boaitey (Ejisu Bronii) who had only 5 votes representing 0.71%.
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com
