Wonders will never end! One of the characters who
came to the defence yesterday of the beleaguered NPP flag-bearer, Nana Akufo
Addo, after revelations that he cannot boast of a single developmental
project in the Abuakwa constituency where he was MP for 12 years is none other
than Victor Esihene.
Mr. Esihene was the District Chief Executive of the
East Akyem District in which the Abuakwa Constituency (North & South) lies.
ON Asempa FM yesterday moments after an NPP activist,
Wahab Amadu, had taken Akufo-Addo to the
cleaners, exposing how he let the Abuakwa state down by failing to initiate
even one developemental project, Victor Esihene came to the defence of his
party’s flag-bearer.
Putting up a strong defence for Akufo Addo, he
claimed the NPP flag-bearer has numerous projects in the constituency to his
credit and called Wahab’s claims a pack of lies.
However, down memory lane, Daily Post has been told
that Mr. Esihene, in the run up to the 2007 Primaries of the NPP was the
Campaign Managers for Akufo-Addo’s rival, Alan Kyeremanteng, in the Akyem
district.
At a meeting with 147 Abuakwa North delegates of the
NPP at the Tafo Cocoa Research Recreational Centre, Mr. Esihene told the delegates
that though he was
from Abuakwa just as Akufo-Addo, he had chosen to campaign for Alan Kyeremateng
because Akufo-Addo was a failure as far as developmental projects in the
Abuakwa constituencies are concerned.
Mr. Asihene also told the delegates that their
colleagues from Kyebi, Akufo Addo’s hometown, have also decided to vote for
Alan Kyermateng because Akufo Addo was a failure, does not have what it takes
to help the Abuakwa constituencies and cannot point to a single project as one
he initiated.
After his speech in which he called on the 147
delegates to vote for Alan Kyeremateng, he distributed GH¢20 each to them.
Interestingly, the man who refused to support Akufo
Addo saying he was a failure as an MP and cannot deliver was the same man
defending him on Asempa FM yesterday saying he has numerous projects in Abuakwa
to his credit! Politics! Politicians!
Meanwhile, a leading NPP activist in the Abuakwa
state, Atta Boateng, says as DCE, Mr. Asihene himself was a flop who
short-changed the people by failing to help develop his district, the reason
why many NPP activists in Abuakwa have decided to vote for President Mahama in
the elections this December.
