Director of Elections of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo has denied having a hand in Tawiah Boateng’s defeat in the just-ended NDC’s Eastern Regional elections.
Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen Tuesday, Mr Ampofo said, as a director of elections, he was at the venue to ensure that elections were held without any hitches.
He said even before he went to the grounds, he openly made everyone aware that because he has already declared his intention to run for the National Chairmanship race, he has no preferences and pledged not to involve in anything that might directly or indirectly promote one over the other.
“You know I’m vying for the chairmanship post and it would be bad to select one person over the other. It won’t be right to involve myself in such things. I was there to ensure that everything goes on smoothly and not to support anyone. Can you believe I never ate the whole of that day because I had to make sure work goes on,” he asked rhetorically.
Mr Ofosu-Ampofo’s comment comes after Mr Tawiah Boateng, the immediate past Eastern Regional NDC Chairman accused him, Ambassador Victor Smith and Mrs Mavis Ama Frimpong of orchestrating his defeat.
“I will not blame anybody for my defeat but it is instructive to note that all former appointees ganged up against Tawiah Boateng. All of them including Ofosu Ampofo, Victor Smith and others embarked on “operation remove Tawiah Boateng and bring JOWAK,” Tawiah Boateng alleged.
“They met all former MMDCEs and even called one founding member of the party, Alhaji Abu, who urged them to vote massively for JOWAK. They did all these machinations and even forced one contestant, Basil Ahiable to step down. They sat him down and tried to convince him to step down for JOWAK. They promised to pay him (Basil Ahiable) GHS130, 000 (¢1.3 billion old cedis) but he refused it. All these contributed to the delay in conducting the regional elections”, he further alleged.
ut Mr Ofosu-Ampofo urged Mr Tawiah Boateng to rise above pettiness and support the party to wrestle power from the NPP.
