[ 2021-02-02 ]

I didn’t cause NPP’s loss in La-Dadekotopon Constituency – Sowah Odotei

By Eunice Hilda Ampomah

Accra, Feb. 2, GNA – Mr Vincent Sowah Odotei,
former Member of Parliament (MP) for the
La-Dadekotopon Constituency, has denied claims by
delegates of the New Patriotic Party, alleging
that he caused the loss of the party in the 2020
parliamentary election.

The delegates in the constituency on Friday
January 29, 2021, held a news conference to
disclose a petition they intended to submit to the
Regional Chairman of the Party about some alleged
misconducts on the part of the former MP which
they believed cost the Party the seat.

The allegations included paying people money to
vote for the National Democratic Congress (NDC)
candidate, going on a spree together with family
and workers when results were declared that the
NPP had lost its seat, describing projects he
spearheaded as his personal enterprise and not
that of the NPP..

They also claimed that he commissioned his
followers to collate innocent people’s data with
the impression of making them delegates in the
next compilation of constituency album even though
the General Secretary of the NPP had not given any
directive to that effect.

The delegates also said Mr Sowah refused to
publicly dissociate himself from the then NDC’s
Parliamentary Candidate’s call on him to join
his campaign since his candidature was rejected by
the delegates during primaries.

“Our independent investigations have proven that
the former MP clandestinely sponsored and also
covertly campaigned for the NDC candidate on the
grounds that they are from the same clan,” their
petition read.

Mr Odotei, in an interview with the Ghana News
Agency, said the petition was only copied from a
petition submitted to the Regional Chairman of the
Party by the Municipal Chief Executive of La
Dadekotopon Municipal Assembly, Reverend Solomon
Kotey Nikoi, the Acting Constituency Chairman, Mr
Kingsley Addison and the then Parliamentary
Candidate, Mr Gerald Tetteh Nyanyofio dated 19th
November, 2020.

He said he responded to the petition, meanwhile,
he would not respond to these allegations from the
delegates.

In a statement copied to the media as comment over
the allegations, Mr Odotei said: “I wish to
state that as a gesture of respect to the party
structures and in order not to do anything which
will bring the name of the party into disrepute, I
will not respond directly to the allegations
contained in their press release since I have, as
indicated above responded via the official party
channel and awaiting their final
determination.”

However, he said the allegation of him supporting
the NDC candidate and both of them hailing from
the same clan house of La, hence a support, was
not only baseless and untrue but rather the
tactics of perennial losers, who had lost many
elections.

“I wish to assure you that I have every faith in
the party structures to get to the bottom of the
cause of our loss of the seat and reiterate my
readiness not only to assist but also to submit
myself to the fact finding committee set up by the
party to investigate such matters,” he said.

Source - GNA

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