[ 2017-01-17 ]

Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni

Opuni contributed to NDC’s defeat – Nukpenu
The Greater Accra Regional Organiser of the
National Democratic Congress (NDC),
Anthony Nukpenu, has said the immediate past
Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board
(COCOBOD), Dr. Stephen K. Opuni, contributed to
the NDC’s defeat in the 2016 polls.

Dr. Opuni, who was recently directed by the
Presidency to handover to the president’s
representative at the Ministry of Agriculture, has
bee accused of not connecting with members of the
NDC thus contributing to voter apathy.

Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Nukpenu insisted
that “his [Opuni’s] role has also caused our
defeat. I have friends, workers of the COCOBOD who
told me in the face that; we are not going to vote
for you people in 2016 because you created a
monster between us and our CEO therefore we will
not vote for NPP, but we will not vote NDC
either.”

“How did we suffer our defeat; because apathy
set in. people refused to go to the polls,” the
NDC executive pointed out as he indicated that
there were senior members of the NDC who were
bitter over Dr. Opuni’s attitude.

“I know senior members of government and party
who are bitter about Opuni and will not come out
to talk. They are even more dangerous than me
talking,” Mr. Nukpenu stated.

Opuni shunned us
Mr. Nukpenu also accused the former COCOBOD CEO of
ignoring people who were not within his circles,
making it difficult to engage him on matters
pertaining to policy with some NDC members or
stakeholders.

“People come across him in public settings or
private settings and it is like he has a class of
people he should deal with. If you don’t fall in
that class, talking to him is a challenge.”

“For example, I would not go to his office to
seek for financial favours or contract favours. I
may encounter a challenge in his field of work
because I interact with downstream cocoa sector
workers. If there is a challenge, I need to meet
the CEO and lay it there. And if we find it
difficult in meeting him then what are we doing as
a government or as a party,” Mr. Nukpenu
lamented.

Blame Rawlings for NDC’s ‘humiliating
defeat’ – Nukpenu 

Mr. Nukpenu has been blaming various individuals
for the party’s defeat, including blaming former
President Rawlings, the party’s Founder for
their loss.
This is regardless of the fact that the party has
set up a committee to investigate its bad
performance at the polls.

Impunity and corruption caused NDC’s defeat –
Rawlings 

Meanwhile ex-President John Rawlings has accused
former government officials of causing the defeat
of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the
just ended general elections.

He believes though there were clear signs ahead of
the general polls that the NDC would lose the
elections, it ignored the signs on the wall and
failed to act.

Source - citifmonline.com

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