JB Danquah-Adu Flees From Victor Smith

Drama unfolded at the Glory

Apostolic Movement church at Kukurantumi in the Abuakwa-North Constituency of

the Eastern Region when the parliamentary candidates of both the NDC and the

NPP arrived there to join them celebrate their annual Harvest.

The first to arrive

there was the NPP Parliamentary candidate, J.B. Danquah-Adu. He seized the opportunity

to promise the church five packets of roofing sheets to enable them roof their church

building.

The NPP man was basking

in the adulation being heaped on him as a result of the promise when Ghana’s

Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Victor Smith, who is the NDC’s parliamentary

candidate for the constituency, arrived.

The cheers that greeted

his arrival was deafening, leaving J B Danquah-Adu looking out of place. The

two briefly greeted each other. Victor Smith then virtually floored his NPP

counterpart when he told the congregation that he would complete the entire roofing

of the church and even tile the floor of the auditorium. That was when the

discomfiture of the NPP Parliamentary Candidate became pronounced. As a result,

during the Praises & Worship session, though renowned for his dancing

prowess, he could hardly shuffle his feet. His situation was even made graver

by the fact that many of the congregants mobbed and danced with Ambassador

Smith, leaving a lonely JB Danquah-Adu to strut around forlornly.

As a result, when no

one was looking, he took the opportunity to slip out of the church room,

leaving behind his mobile phones which he painfully has to return for.

Reports of NPP

supporters shifting camp and pledging their support for the NDC’s Victor Smith

has presented JB Danquah-Adu with an uphill task, with his chances of winning

the seat for the NPP growing dimmer by the day.

The magic wand Victor

Smith has waved in this constituency is infrastructural development which he

has embarked on though he is not yet the MP. Buoyed on by the slogan Mputuo soronko,

mputuo papabi, his efforts has seen the major road leading to the

town undergoing rehabilitation for the first time in thirty-five years. This

week, he is commissioning a project to rehabilitate the dilapidated Old Tafo market

which has become an eye-sore. Already, he has secured a ten-acre land for the

construction of a Vocational Institute.

JB Danquah-Adu was MP

for the constituency from 2004 to 2008 during when the people said he failed to

initiate a single developmental project.