Election year cocoa season for chiefs – Ade Coker

Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joseph Ade Coker, has said election years are like a cocoa season for chiefs in the country.

According to him, this is the main reason why the chiefs keep calm, welcoming politely any politician who enters their territory, but they have in mind a particular party that their followers would vote for.

They use this strategy as a yardstick to collect goodies and uncountable promises from political parties who visit their lands.

He, however, indicated that the “NDC would win 40% of votes in the Ashanti Region which is a strong hold of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) if they claim targeting 25% votes from the Volta Region, NDC’s strong hold.”

“The current ‘Better Ghana Agenda’ led by President John Dramani Mahama can perfectly redress the flood problems facing this nation by demolishing houses that have been built along drainage patterns . . . But here is the case in this country that a government is given all the bad names in the world when it wants to curb this deluge impasse,” he emphasized during a panel discussion on UTV’s ‘Adekye Nsroma’ programme.

Ade Coker asked Ghanaians to compare the Mahama led government to no other former president of this country than Dr Kwame Nkrumah.