By: tntnewspapergh.com

A former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ejisu Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Mr Kwabena Owusu Aduomi, has urged all Ghanaians, especially the constituents of Ejisu, to totally ignore the hatred and false claims against him by Mr Akwasi Osei-Adjei, who is also a former Ejisu MP.

According to Mr Aduomi, the falsehood being peddled by Mr Osei-Adjei that he (Aduomi) has never been a member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is born out of sheer hatred against him, because he defeated him in the party’s primary some years back.

Kwabena Owusu Aduomi

He added that from that time to date, Mr Osei-Adjei has never said anything good about him.

Aduomi’s comment follows claims made against him by Mr. Osei-Adjei on Kumasi-based “Asanteman 107.3 Radio”. He was interviewed by Sir Mike.

During the interview, Sir Mike asked Mr Osei-Adjei, “Are you surprised by the decision of your colleague, Owusu Aduomi, to contest the Ejisu by-election as an independent candidate?”

Responding to the question, Mr Osei-Adjei said, “I’m not surprised because from day one, I’ve always said Aduomi is not an NPP member. My intelligence revealed that some party executives secretly managed to do a party card for him to contest me in the primary, but I decided not to contest again to avoid confusion.”

But, in response, Mr. Aduomi said he was neither selfish nor greedy but was only responding to majority of people in Ejisu, who are calling on him to come and continue his good works as former MP for the area in 12 years.

“Akwasi Osei-Adjei has nothing to show as former MP for Ejisu. He was MP for Ejisu and former Foreign Affairs Minister. What did he do? Why are the people of Ejisu and nananom not calling on him to contest the seat because of his good achievements? I’m calling on all Ghanaians, especially the people of Ejisu to ignore him,” he declared.

According to Mr Aduomi, since the formation of NPP in 1992 when he was in Tamale, he started supporting the party in many ways.

‘If he says I’m not an NPP member, let him (Osei-Adjei) come out and tell Ghanaians which political party I belong to!” he pointed out.

“I even donated an amount of 10,000 old cedis to him when I was the Regional Director of Highways when he was MP. What did he use the money for?” he asked rhetorically.

He said his decision to contest as an independent candidate is due to the failure of the leadership of the party, from the regiona to national level, to resolve illegal polling stations and coordinators’ elections, resulting in the current internal wranglings among the rank and file of NPP.

According to him, the disputed internal Ejisu NPP primary is still in court, because the party has blatantly failed to resolve the matter after setting up the Cecilia Abena Dapaah-led committee.

“Unfortunately, up to date, the report is still not known and you expect me to offer myself to contest on the party’s ticket with delegates handpicked by someone without the approval of majority of the party supporters? No, Aduomi doesn’t want to benefit from illegal polling stations and constituency elections; hence, my decision to contest as an independent candidate in response to the calls by nananom and residents,” he added.

He continued, “I’m a civil engineer; I work. I’m not going to Parliament because I want money. If I want money, I won’t go. I want to go to Parliament because I want to help my people the way I started and want to continue; it’s not about money.”