There were plans to eliminate me and 2 regional chairmen of the NPP - Bugri Naabu

Chief Bugri Naabu, the former Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said that some members of the party planned to eliminate him and two regional chairmen of the party: Adam Mahama and Alhaji Short, because they stood in the way of some people.

Speaking to GhanaWeb, he claimed that it was the same group of people who wanted to kill the three of them that attacked the former Upper East Regional Chairman, Adam Mahama, with acid, leading to his eventual death.

"Today, where is Adam, and what happened to Adam? We all know it was acid they poured on Adam, and the acid is coming from where? So, If you want to kill me, that will never happen. That means that I rather want to take your life and you made sure Adam was killed," he stated.

Bugri Naabu was reacting to a news story on GhanaWeb that said Nana Ohene Ntow, a former National Chairman of the NPP, claimed that he (Chief Bugri Naabu) threatened to kill him because of his support for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

The leading member of the ruling political party further accused Nana Ohene Ntow of hypocrisy, alleging that it was rather he and his allies who wanted to kill him and not the other way round.

"It is funny that he doesn't feel ashamed to say I wanted to kill him. After all, there were plans to eliminate me, Chief Bugri Naabu, Adam Mahama, Upper East Regional Chairman; and Alhaji Short, Upper West Regional Chairman, because they said the way we're doing, if they did not eliminate us, they will not get their way. So, we saw it, not that we didn't see it."

He added, "I remember in Tamale, when I arrived from Accra, I heard that there were some people in town to eliminate my life, so I should make sure I don't go out.

"True, true, they went to one of the big hotels in town and asked me to come, that there were some visitors who came from Accra, and they want me to meet the visitors. I asked them who are the visitors, they couldn't tell me anything. What they could tell me was there were some two girls who were party members. And they want to see me, they couldn't mention their names, they came on motor bikes to my gate."

He added that the people tried and even wanted to force him into the meeting but he refused.

"They wanted to force and enter. It was the people who live around me who came and said, you want the man to come, the man is not coming, why do you come late hour? Why do you come late at night and say that you must go inside. We won't allow you to go. It tuned into a big argument at my gate in Tamale," he added.

He also questioned why Nana Ohene Ntow would resign from the party because his candidate did not win the elections.

"Are you to resign to form the Butterfly Movement or go independent. So, I want to clear by myself that it is rather they who want to kill us. I remember something happening. There was a meeting at Circle and some machomen came to surround Alhaji Short and were out to assassinate Short and myself.

"Another attempt to eliminate us was that they said there was waakye and tuo zaafi; they were calling us to come and join them to eat. While we were preparing to go, some three elderly members of the party told us that we should not go because they had brought machomen to surround the house and that if we go there to eat the waakye and tuo, they will kill us or beat us. So, we refused to go.

"So, he should rather say they were rather masterminding to kill us, and not me," he added.

On August 27, 2024, the former NPP General Secretary, Nana Ohene Ntow, alleged that Daniel Bugri Naabu, the Paramount Chief of Namong in the North East Region, and former Northern Regional Chairman of the NPP, once threatened to kill him.

“If it has gotten to the point that people are being punished for expressing their God-given right to choose the person they think is a good leader, then the party has lost its real essence as a democratic entity.

“People started harbouring hatred. During those days, when I went to council meetings (the hatred was bare). One day Bugri Naabu placed his finger on my nose, saying ‘You Ohene Ntow, you Ohene Ntow, Kwabena Agyapong, Kojo Mpianim, you don’t want Akufo-Addo to become president, we would kill you.’ He said this happened at a council meeting at Alisa Hotel and everyone was sitting silently watching,” he said in Twi.

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