Nationa Security Sponsors NDC Contestant

…3BN Involved to Bribe NDC Delegates to prevent Mills Victory
…Pro-NPP Newspaper Drops Guard and Releases Bombshell

The New Democrat has released its opinion polls on the likely outcome of the December 22 NDC Congress. The paper has also been reporting on the clandestine manoeuvres of national security to foment violent incidents at the Legon congress of the party. The latest information reaching your authoritative New Democrat is the exposure of the secret 3billion Cedis funding of one of the NDC contestants by national security.

Democrat intelligence sources very close to President J.A. Kufuor, have revealed the secret sponsorship deal with one of the NDC candidates (name withheld for now). A staggering 3billion cedis has been handed over to this contestant to use to influence NDC delegates to vote for him. The deal is to ensure Prof. Atta Mills is denied victory at the congress to reduce the NDC threat of capturing power in 2008.

According to our sources, the money was personally handed to this NDC contestant by a top national security operative who is known to have the ears of J.A. Kufuor. The operative, we are informed, presented the president with hard security data indicating that a win for Atta Mills will pose serious problems for the NPP 2008 election strategy. In order to be at the safer side, the national security operative convinced his boss, J.A. Kufuor to sanction the sponsorship deal to try and change the direction and outcome of the NDC congress slated for this week.

The NPP sponsored candidate, who we can now describe as a veritable fifth columnist, is out to sell the NDC heritage to the NPP for a mesh of pottage. Armed with the NPP funded billions the contestant is reported to have gone on a massive vote-buying spree with just a few days to the NDC congress. He has been spotted in the Eastern Region dishing out wads of 20,000 Cedi notes to some delegates. This contestant’s desperation to please the NPP and justify the billions given him by national security has also seen him in Nima and other parts of Accra recently where he tried to corrupt delegates with the NPP funded billions.

While the New Democrat is yet to confirm the sponsorship allegations theory as fed us by NPP intelligence sources, one of the pro-NPP newspapers, The Statesman in its issue of 12 December 2006, provided very interesting leads as ample evidence of the involvement of their government and party to direct the outcome of the NDC congress with the funding theory of one of the NDC contestants.

Although we are withholding the name of this NDC contestant for now, the pro-NPP newspaper’s revelations makes interesting reading. The Statesman unguardedly dropped the sponsorship theory by spuriously alleging NDC propaganda against one of its own candidates for being bankrolled by Mr. Francis Poku, the NPP Minister for National Security. Part of the story as published by the Statesman which could provide some useful leads and clues to the NDC hierarchy to investigate further reads,

“So strong is the Rawlings-led 'Stop-Spio" campaign that the latest propaganda is that Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, the man initially tipped to cause an upset, has been sponsored by Francis Poku, the National Security Minister, The Statesman has learnt.”

It is the considered view of the New Democrat from this loose reportage of this NPP mouthpiece that there is a strong involvement of national security to direct the outcome of the NDC congress to suit their ‘win 2008 by hook or crook’ strategy. Besides, we are disturbed by this piece of writing by The statesman for openly alluding to a kind of marriage and secret sponsorship of an NDC contestant. The New Democrat has made discreet checks and spoken to very highly placed sources within the NDC as to whether they are aware of this kind of propaganda in the NDC as to ‘ the Rawlings-led stop-Spio campaign’ as The Statesman alluded to as quoted above. The paper found none and the NDC hierarchy denies same.

The intelligence sources we spoke to were unanimous in their analyses to the effect that the pro-NPP newspaper might have dropped its guard and let the ‘cat out of the bag’. ‘Their frustrations as to the inability of the Spio Garbrah camp to make serious in-roads into the NDC power base, that is, to penetrate the solid front of the party’s delegates is a major bother to the NPP and their security chiefs hence their political amnesia resulting in the slippage into their paper of what is considered a highly guarded confidential issue.

As at press time, the New Democrat has been further briefed by its intelligence sources very close to President Kufuor confirming the sponsorship deal and a meeting held between the NPP national security sponsored NDC candidate, the top national security operative and an NPP Minister, who is widely known to be a liberal user of narcotic substances. We are still investigating the leads provided by our intelligence sources and we would not shy away from exposing the true identity of this NPP funded NDC contestant if our various leads point to a definite conclusion very soon.

In a related development, intelligence sources have explained how disturbed the partisan NPP national security is about Atta Mills victory to the extent that, they have moved their disruption and violent induced plans into top gear. The Lord Commey-led goons known as the ‘Action Troopers’, have in collaboration with the NPP plain clothed policemen perfected strategies to induce violence at the Congress if their preferred and funded candidate is not elected to lead the NDC. Already, the national security apparatus has managed to print NDC T-Shirts for the infiltrators to cause violent scenes at the Congress. Stay tuned