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.
