[ 2017-01-25 ]

Dr Edward Mahama

Mahama Under Fire . . . Over Transferring Party Cash To Buy Treasury Bills
Mr Haruna Mohammed, Deputy General Secretary in
charge of Finance and Administration of the
People’s National Convention (PNC) has accused
Dr Edward Mahama, the party’s 2016 elections
flag bearer of diverting funds meant for campaign
for his personal gains.

This he said was one of the major cause that
accounted for the poor performance of the PNC in
the 2016 elections.

Mr Mohammed made the accusation when he granted an
interview to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on
Tuesday.

He said the leadership style and responded to the
call of the party’s National Executives by the
flag bearer was not good and was not always
yielding the satisfactory results as expected by
the party.

Anytime he was needed by the executives to discuss
important issues pertaining the party, he was not
available and this was across board nationwide.

The Deputy General Secretary said, the campaign
team of the flag bearer during the elections was
without a single National Executive of the party
and that funds organized by the party and the flag
bearer was used to buy Treasury Bills by the Dr
Mahama for his personal gains.

“None of the members of the flag bearer campaign
team were members of the PNC and that he is of the
view that the flag bearer did not campaign to the
party’s satisfaction.

He said the PNC late launch of their manifesto was
not because of their disqualification by Electoral
Commission but was due to the greediness of the
flag bearer who at then wanted to use funds meant
for the manifesto launch to organize coconut
festival.

Mr Mohamed said the PNC manifesto was ready since
March 2016 but the flag bearer's interest of
organizing the coconut festival before the party
manifesto launch delayed the launch.

He said Mr Hassan Ayariga, the predecessor of Dr
Mahama performed creditably in campaigning than Dr
Mahama and that Mr Ayariga was too bias towards
other political parties especially the major
opposition party.

The Deputy General Secretary therefore called on
the leadership of the party to conduct an
investigation into the matter and the party's poor
performance in the 2016 General Elections and find
a solution to the problem to avoid subsequent
occurrences.

When the reporter contacted Dr. Mahama, he denied,
adding that, he has no time for such frivolous
accusations.

Dr. Mahama however stated that there was no
element of truth in the issue and that there was
no need for him to react to the issue.

Source - The New Crusading Guide

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