[ 2014-10-23 ]

Allotey Jacobs: NDC will use tricks to win Election 2016
Bernard Allotey Jacobs, Central Regional
Communications Director of the National Democratic
Congress, yesterday gave indication that his party
would employ ‘sulia’, to wit, tricks, to win
the 2016 general elections.

According to the aspiring Regional Chairman of the
NDC, they will make sure that Ghanaians are
‘well-fed’, adding that once that has been
done, they can play ‘sulia’ game with the NPP
to win the elections.

He was speaking as a co-panelist, with NPP
National Women Organiser, Otiko Afisa Djaba, on
Adom TV’s ‘Badwam’ yesterday.

He was commenting on the statement by Dr Richard
Amoako-Baah, Head of the History and Political
Science Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University
of Science and Technology, that the NPP should be
dissolved if it fails to win the 2016 elections
the ‘wobbly NDC’.

The NPP National Women’s Organizer considered
the statement by Allotey Jacobs very insulting to
the intelligence of the Ghanaian electorate.

“You see, by what he said, the NDC believes
stealing the nation’s money and starving the
people is the way to win elections, so that once
the money has been piled up, they can satisfy the
temporal needs of the electorate close to the
elections using their own money, just to buy
votes. And this is what they have been doing over
the years and this is an insult to the voters,”
Mr Otiko later told the New Statesman.

She regretted the fact that even though businesses
are collapsing in the country because of the
‘dumso-dumso’ and other unfavourable business
conditions, including corruption, with life now
very unbearable for all, except those close to the
nation’s resources, President Mahama and his NDC
remain insensitive.

“They are only thinking of how to use the
people’s own money to play ‘sulia’ on the
NPP to win the elections; they are only thinking
about winning elections and not how to make life
better for the people, as they claimed with their
own failed Better Ghana Agenda. Ghanaians must
open their eyes and sit up and make sure the NDC
does not take them for granted and deceive them
again,” Mr Otiko added.

According to her, all the corruption and looting
of the nation’s resources going on, as evidenced
by the Brazil thievery and other corruption
scandals, are all part of the NDC’s ‘sulia’
game to use the people’s own money to win the
election, as they did during the 2012 election.

She accused the Mahama-led administration of not
setting its priorities right, explaining that was
part of the reason important projects like the
Ghana gas project, which was supposed to have to
have completed long ago, are still behind
schedule.

“That is also part of the reason why the NDC, in
spite of the suffering of the people, can mobilize
about $20million to build up that edifice as
office,” Otiko stressed, adding: “They have
failed in doing their part of the social contract
they entered into Ghanaians to give them a better
Ghana, and I think the electorate should not allow
the NDC to play their ‘sulia’ game with their
own money, as they did in 2012, to deceive them
again.”

Source - Peacefmonline

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