[ 2015-04-24 ]

Adamu Sakande Plots Ayariga’s Defeat
Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku
Central, Adamu Dramani Sakande has exclusively
told Citi News, he will launch a comeback to
reclaim the Bawku Central seat from the National
Democratic Congress (NDC).

“I can confirm, here and now that I am going to
be a candidate for the next election; that is the
primaries,” he declared.

The seat is currently being occupied by the
Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation,
Mahama Ayariga.

Adamu Sakande’s position as MP was short lived
after he was jailed two years for false
declaration of office, perjury and deceiving a
public officer.

He was later granted a Presidential pardon due to
ill health. He told Citi News, he has fully
recovered and is ready to work hard to win the
seat back for the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

An optimistic Adamu Sakande served notice that
with the overwhelming support he has received so
far, he will surely win the party’s primaries
and the 2016 Parliamentary elections as well.

“I go into competitions to win and hopefully, I
am going to win. The support has been very
overwhelming,” he said.

According to him, despite being an ex-convict, he
qualifies to contest the elections “and I am
going to contest and hopefully win back the seat
and let it be where it belongs which is the
NPP.”

Sakande revealed that the individuals who
engineered his incarceration “have all come to
ask me to forgive them because they didn’t know
and I have forgiven them,” adding that,
“politicians can be that nasty and I still
insist that I did nothing wrong.”

He nonetheless hinted that at the opportune time,
he will “start naming names. We are going to go
through vetting and everybody is going to come
clean and everything is going to be okay.”

The NPP will elect its Parliamentary candidates
who will represent them in the 2016 general
elections on May 24, 2015.

Source - Daily Guide

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