The campaign team of Alhaji Abubakar Abdul-Raman, popularly known as Alhaji Short who is contesting in the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) national chairmanship race has launched a verbal attack on Mr Stephen Ntim for suggesting that he [Alhaji Short] was not known in the party.
In a leaked audio, a voice said to be that of Mr Stephen Ntim, suggests to party supporters at a meeting in Koforidua that he [Ntim] has been asked by President Akufo-Addo to step down from the race to allow Alhaji Short to go ahead and win the national chairman position.
In the audio, the voice goes ahead to say it was worrying that after all the sacrifices for the party [in 2014] and when it had become glaring that Ntim was going to win in Tamale, one person got up to pronounce that Fred Oware should be voted for and it went ahead to destroy everything and created an unrecoverable cost for Ntim.
He said he [Ntim] was initially supporting Alan Kyerematen but later followed and supported President Akufo-Addo and so if it is time for him to contest as national chairman, it was surprising that he was being asked to step down for the unknown Alhaji Short who he said has never contested the position in the past, to become the national chairman.
According to him, the proposal was very disheartening since it was the fourth time he [Ntim] was contesting and that he would go ahead and contest, “and I am going to win and I will work with the President [Akufo-Addo] after winning, whether he will work with me or not, I don’t care, I will work with him.”
When I win, I will go to him and say Nana, here is the ‘silver cup’, “I’m coming to work for you, that is what I will do, I’m not going to fight with my president, that is my lifelong political ambition.”
He went ahead to suggest that if care was not taken, if he doesn’t get it, the preferred choice may not also get it and it could turn into something else.
“He [President Akufo-Addo] should back off, I am not going to be an Afoko, I’m going to be another chairman to oversee the winning of 2020, and 2024 irrespective of who will be the presidential candidate, that is my commitment to you, I am not fighting for anybody but fighting for my heart's desire,” he said on the audio.
Alhaji Short response
Alhaji Short who seemed not happy with the allegation and reference to him as not known has through his campaign spokesperson Mr Kwabena Marfo responded and debunked that notion.
Source: Daily Graphic
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he never said that.NTIM ALLL THE WAY
TEAM SHORT, dont belittle President Akufo Addo. These tricks can woo President easily. He is smarter than you people. No concoction and tricks ooo. Dont make our president a mockery ofour party. Dont project him in some light. It is bad. Just get to the field and campaign and forget. A word to the wise is always up in the north. Take it TEAM SHORT. Thanks
Alhaji Short Communication Officer do you really know your candidate Alhaji Abdulraman Abakari well enough?. How can Alhaji Short who applied for and received his NPP membership card in 2004, some few months to him contesting regional chairman position in UWR be a Founding Member and mobilizer for the NPP in 1992? How can Alhaji Short - a PNDC CADRE and a revolutionary who is a colleague to the Kunbours, Yileh Chirehs and Amidu Suliemanas be a member of the NPP in 1992? Ask Alhaji Short whether he was not sent to Bulgaria/Austria by the Cadres secretariat to be trained in communist inferior tactics as he and you are applying now? How can the man who claimed to have a lot of followers monotonously loose the Wa central constituency (his home constituency) since he became NPP regional chairman? What business is Alhaji Short involved in to enable him raise the resources to support the party since he became regional chairman? Are you NOT aware Alhaji Short is strongly supporting Alhaji Hafis Bin Salih (his first vice chairman/regional secretary) to be UW Regional NPP Chairman as we speak now but Hafis is loosing the election by a wider margin next week? - mark my word. That is the legasy of Short. Why did Alhaji Short lie to President Akufo Addo that the suspended UW Regional minister, who is also his very direct brother was an NPP man when the true is that he is a PNC man until the security lapses exposed his level of incompetence? Dont waist your time and resources on Alhaji Short. He is loosing the National chairmanship contest. No amount of lies, propaganda and knocking President Akufo Addo head against calm, humble Ntim can click. Ask Alhaji Short whether he and the suspended regional minister didnt plann and sell all contracts awarded in the region to NDC contractors? Come to UWR and see this for yourself. If Alhaji short says he is popular he should stop using President name and go out and campaign alone on himself. Mr communications officer, cross check your facts well well. You dont know your candidate Alhaji Short well. Ntim Time Aso !!!!!!!!
This chap NTIM will NEVER hold any post of worth in the NPP. This is his punishment for sins against Ghana.
aKUFFO aDDO HS NEVER BEEN A UNIFIER IN HIS LIFE B4. HE WILL BRING NPP DOWN IF HE DOES NOT CONCENTRATE ON THE GOVERNANCE THAT HE IS DOING VERY BAD. IF YOU FOLLOW WHAT CDD IS SAYING IT MEANS HE HAS ALREADY LOST FOLLOWERS FRO 53% TO 49%
Ntim be careful, if u want to be a national chair don't attack Akuffoo Addo because if u do then you are finished.
npp must be careful with this internal contest else it will go out of hand, a word to the national executive. if stephen ntim actually said that then am afraid he is making his chance bleak by the day if he cares to know