Honorable Aponkye lost the race to Ibrahim Adabor in a race that many saw as his to take
The Assembly Member Elect who sent Ibrahim Adabor Isa Ampem a.k.a. Aponkye packing with a paltry 19% share of votes is making claims to the effect that the huge crowds that heralded Aponkye’s campaigns were actually his loyalists.
It came as a huge shocker to Aponkye’s huge number of admirers and social media sympathizers when it turned out that Abdul Rashid Musa had swept a thousand and thirty votes with Aponkye scrambling for a paltry two hundred and forty seven votes.
Aponkye who took to wild street processions dressed in white with huge crowds following him on foot and on motorbikes before counting; came through with the least share of the votes falling right behind the incumbent Idrisu Mohammed Abdella who polled five hundred and thirteen votes.
Responding to Aponkye’s insistence that the elections were engineered against him, Rashid contended that some ninety percent of Aponkye’s followers were fantasy crowds that only followed him for the mockery of it.
He told Ultimate News’ Ivan Heathcote – Fumador, “I can tell you that about 90% of the supporters and the crowds who have been following aponkye are my people.
“Honourable Aponkye is the people’s choice; he makes us enjoy ourselves in the community; he helps us release tension. Everyone likes to see him playing with people so for sure people will follow him but here we are dealing with real business,” he mocked.
According to Rashid Musa the people read between the comic relief of Aponkye and the real business of developmental needs of the community and made the perfect choice for the electoral area.
Wishing away Aponkye’s threats of seeking legal redress, Rashid wondered how the man with the least votes will have any weight to contest an election which was not closely called.
He however urged that people continue showing him the same support and love as a brother in the community and not shun him after his loss.
The winner 29-year-old Abdul Rashid Musa teaches at the Ahamadiyya Senior High School in the Asokore Mampong Municipality.
