Daniel Bugri Naabu, the former Northern Regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party, (NPP) has refuted allegations made by Nana Ohene Ntow, a former general secretary of the party that he threatened to kill him and other leading members of the party for not supporting Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s presidential ambitions.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Etsey Atisu on GhanaWeb TV, he explained that he never made such threat but rather it was some people within the party who were masterminding to kill him.
He recounted some incidents where he and other leading members of the party were targeted during a meeting at Circle and another instance where he was invited to eat waakye only to be informed by some leading members of the party that it was a trap.
"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.
"As a chief, you can't threaten anybody that I will kill... he's either exaggerating or he is sick. I have never threatened him," he narrated.
According to him, the accusations levelled against him by Nana Ohene Ntow was as a result of a dispute during a National Council Meeting where he opposed some action by Nana Ohene Ntow. . "Yes, there was argument in the National Council Meeting and some of us saw that the way they were dragging the party, especially he Ohene Ntow and others, they were selling us to NDC because everything they were doing showed that they were selling us to the NDC.
"So, we told them point blank in their faces, but I didn't point my finger in their faces, that what you were doing is very bad... it's funny for you to not feel ashamed to go and say that I want to kill you. After all, there were plans to eliminate me, Chief Bugri Naabu; Adam Mahama, Upper 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," he stated.
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 party, 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 s/he thinks 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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