AKOSA – SAMIA ORDEAL EBE GREEN OOO!

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) last Saturday 30^th January, 2016 elected Ivor Kobina Greenstreet as their new flagbearer for the November 2016 polls. He won with 1, 288 votes which represents 64.2% of the valid votes cast as against his closet contender Samia Yaba Nkrumah who secured 579 votes which represents 28.9% at the International Trade Fair Center. Other candidates Bright Akwetey and Joseph Agyepong also secured 42 and 83 votes representing 2.1% and 4.1% respectively.

Prior to the CPP’s delegates congress Samia Yaba Nkrumah was tipped by Political watches as favorite to lead her father’s party into the November Polls but her dreams was shut by Ivor Kobina Greeenstreet’s victory.

Samia thinking that indeed CPP was her father’s party, she could easily campaign with the name of Osagyefo to see her way through just as she did to win the Jomoro seat.

Just as any other elections, this election was full of allegations of vote buying but none of those making this baseless allegations was ready to channel their allegations to the appropriate quarters for action.

Prof Akosa who had contested for the same position before had tipped Samia of wining with 80% of the valid vote cast but was never so. A clear case of Man proposes but God dispose it. The formal Director of the Ghana Health Services was quick to add that “CPP has voted for money……that is the choice of congress sadly and as a democrate I have to accept but congress voted for money”. Really!

• Did the good old Prof verify before making such allegations?
• If he did what was he supposed to have done?
• So would he has said the same if Samia had won?

Come on Prof Akosa, I think this triviality in our politics should stop.

• Prof haven’t you paid money before in your campaigning to become the flagbearer?
• So is the Prof trying to say nobody can win an election genuinely unless the person buy votes?
• Can’t the candidate elect win election in the CPP?

Any way these allegations was not far from the defeated candidate Samia Yaba Nkrumah. She also allege that Ivor Greeenstreet paid Ghȼ200 and Ghȼ500 to become the flagbearer.

Samia speaking to news men said “I’m obviously not happy with the results, but I accept them. The fact of the matter is that every delegate was paid Ghȼ200 and Ghȼ500 actually, among many other things. So it was down to money and of course we cannot be happy about that but we accept the results and we move on. There is a lot of work to be done and I will always serve the party. It’s a vision to serve not for individual.”

• Samia, so how much did you pay to win the 2008 seat at Jomoro?
• How much did you pay to the 579 votes who voted for you?
• If you actually saw Ivor and his people paying Ghȼ200 and Ghȼ500, why didn’t you report for the law to take it cause?
• Would you have ever mentioned such allegation if you had won?
• Are you making such allegations because Ivor paid a bigger sum of money than you?

Samia if you are not ready to allow the appropriate quarters to act upon your allegations than my dear forever remain your peace.

• You think your father Osagyefo was the President of Ghana, you can also run on his achievement and become the flagbearer?

Just rethink Yaba and come out with a concrete information as to how you lost to Ivor.

CPP isn’t your birth right so such baseless and trivial allegations should stop. Come on we are in the 21^st century and we should raise above such pettiness in our body politics.

When it favors you good but when its goes the other way round, the candidate did A, B, C.

It’s about time Politicians in this country accept defeat and embrace the winner, help him to move the campaign to the next level. Let’s support each other and build a strong democratic front in Ghana.

Ebe – Green ooo!

Ekow Arthur-Aidoo
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