NDC bribes PPP

Exposed!

*MP Aspirants

Todayhas

uncovered subtle and underground plot by some key elements within the governing

National Democratic Congress (NDC) enticing some of the parliamentary

candidates of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) with sums of money and other

forms of inducements to drop their MP aspirations.

The move, the paper gathers, has the

full backing of the leadership of the ruling party with the understanding that

with the PPP candidates out of the way, the NDC would be more at ease combating

their number one nemesis, the NPP, without looking out for any possible threat

from another opposition party.

Today’shounds further established that the scheme is being hatched

by the NDC to ensure that many of the PPP parliamentary candidates either step

down now or after they had filed their nominations, to contest the upcoming

parliamentary elections.

In the Greater Accra Region, the

scheme is almost hitting a crescendo with the main targets being the Ablekuma

Central, South and West; Weija, Dome Kwabenya and many other places in Ashanti,

Western and the Northern Regions.

In the Volta Region, the paper

discovered that the NDC is not only targeting MP aspirants of the PPP, but also

some of the party’s executives.

Some top PPP members are being

promised overseas trips as well as catering and paying the school fees of their

wards and children. Most of the MP aspirants who are falling to the NDC

overtures are people suspected to be planted moles within the PPP.

The party leadership has however

hinted that their attention had been drawn to the mole allegation and was

quietly and discreetly monitoring the situation.

Probing further, it was established

that the NDC move was not only targeted at the PPP’s parliamentary candidates

but at some of its constituency and polling station executives.

And interestingly enough some

district chief executives (DCEs) who have affinity with the NDC have also

joined this clandestine move.

In some cases, our investigate team

found out that PPP parliamentary candidates who were working in the civil

service were threatened that they will lose their jobs if they do not budge to

the NDC overtures.

Against this backdrop, a national

executive of the PPP who agreed to speak to the paper on condition of anonymity

said the party is aware of the secret moves by the NDC to entice its members to

their benefit.

This strategy, the PPP officer said,

was used against the smaller political parties in the 2008 general elections

and it worked.

“…But we are aware of such moves and

we will make sure that we fight it from several fronts, national executive

affirmed.

According to the PPP officer, they

are closely examining their parliamentary candidates, warning that any

candidate who is ‘caught falling prey to the NDC inducements will immediately

be taken off and be replaced.”

The PPP national executive member

went on to stress that the leadership is talking to both its parliamentary candidates

and executives at the regional and constituency and urging them to ward off

such inducements from the NDC or any political party.

“We are taking this step to ensure

that we have genuine, loyal and credible candidates and executives who believe

in the ideals of the PPP and area ready to work diligently to make sure that

our party wins the December 7 polls,” the PPP national executive told Today.

“We also want to make sure that we

have especially solid parliamentary candidates who will contest and win their

respective seats.”

Pix: Nii Allottey Brew-Hammond, PPP

National Chairman