Akufo-Addo denies bodyguards pummelled Lord Commey

The Office of two-time flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has denied a publication by the Daily Post Newspaper that the former presidential candidate’s bodyguards pummelled the party’s former National Organiser, Lord Commey, over cash given him for alleged vote-buying purposes.

Headlined “Lord Commey pummelled by Akufo-Addo’s bodyguards,” Akufo-Addo’s office, in a statement, said the Friday, April 25, 2014, publication is a “blatant lie”.

The story said Mr. Commey “received the most severe beatings of his life” from the Akufo-Addo’s bodyguards for “failing to give to delegates monies given to him by godfathers in the Akufo-Addo camp to be given to the delegates at the just ended delegates’ conference at Tamale.”

Akufo-Addo’s Office, however, rebuffed the publication saying the former flagbearer “wishes to reiterate emphatically and unequivocally that no such thing, as described by the paper, has ever happened at the gates of Nana Akufo-Addo’s house, or will such a criminal and despicable act ever happen there.”

“In addition, no money or any form of inducement was given to Laud Commey by Nana Akufo-Addo or ‘godfathers in the Akufo-Addo camp’ for delegates at the Tamale conference, with the aim of swaying delegates’ votes to favour any one candidate or a set of candidates,” the statement signed by Press Secretary Eugene Arhin said.

The statement said: “It has become evidently clear that the shameless agenda of some newspapers situated in the bosom of the ruling NDC government is to fabricate and peddle falsehoods about Nana Akufo-Addo, in the hope of trying to divert attention from the ailing and failing Better Ghana Agenda, which has so far been characterised by incompetence and economic hardships. Ghanaians are discerning and know better.”