[ 2016-11-30 ]

Mahama, Ibrahim tried bribing me – Bugri Naabu confirms
Mr Daniel Bugri Naabu, the Northern Regional
Chairman of the New Patriotic Party(NPP) has
confirmed the bribery allegation brought against
the President John Mahama and his brother, Ibrahim
by the NPP at Tuesday’s Press conference held by
the major opposition.

He said indeed Mr. Mahama and his brother
attempted bribing him.

“It is true, I think they’ve shown you the
car, I believe they didn’t just call the press
conference, so, there’s no doubt about that but
you can call later. Thank you,” Naabu told
Accra-based Atinka FM on Wednesday, 30 November.

According to Mustapha Hamid, spokesperson to the
NPP Flagbearer Nana Akufo Addo, the president and
his sibling in October this year approached Daniel
Bugri Naabu with two SUVs, GHS3.3 million,
GHS500,000 and other goodies so that he would
ditch the NPP and to allege its flag bearer is
tribalistic and intolerant to people from the
Northern extraction.

Addressing a press conference on Tuesday at the
headquarters of the NPP in Accra, Mr. Hamid said
the bribe was meant to inveigle the Northern
regional chairman of the party to resign from the
party and launch tribal attacks on it.

“He was supposed to resign from the NPP, damage
Akufo-Addo as an anti-Northern person, a rabid
hater of Northerners and in turn, they were going
to give him: a brand new V6 Mitsubishi vehicle,
[and] a brand new V8 Land Cruiser, GHS3.3m.

“Bugri Naabu is owed by government to the tune
of GHS247,000 from road contracts that he has done
which government has not been paying for several
years. They promised to pay that money instantly
and then on the spot, they brought him GHS500,000
cash in GHS50 notes. Ibrahim Mahama dropped it
right in front of him [Bugri Naabu],” alleged
Mr. Hamid.

He continued: “It’s terribly sad. This country
is in serious trouble, we need to rescue this
country from serious trouble. The presidency has
been so depraved, so muddied, so dirty that I tell
you in all sincerity as a Ghanaian that I feel
terribly sad as a Ghanaian.

“And then they gave the money to Bugri Naabu and
he took the money and left, it was a Friday, 28th
of October 2016, so the very next day was a
Saturday and Bugri Naabu found one Prudential Bank
that he knew would be opened at that time; that
Abossey Okai branch of Prudential Bank and then he
went and deposited the money in his account. His
account number is 0090985590013, account name is
Daniel Bugri Naabu.”

However, speaking on Asempa FM’s Eko sii sen
show Tuesday, the Campaign Coordinator, Kofi Adams
stated that the allegation falls flat as the NDC
knowing the sort of person Bugri Naabu is, would
never use him in such a deal.

“What I heard the NPP say at the Press
conference requires someone with high a very high
level of intelligence to do. I’m not sure Bugri
Naabu meets up to that standard. With the sort of
poor quality of leadership he’s giving his party
in the Northern Region, Bugri Naabu should not be
the one to be engaged in such a move.”

“In 2008, NPP hired a gentleman, killed a goat
and smeared its blood on his cloths claiming he
had been beaten by NDC supporters, of which the
NPP held a press conference about. The NPP has
mastered the art on fabricating stories. What
can’t they do?”

He continued: “This is a party which per its
history is quick to hold press conferences anytime
elections are approaching and make such
allegations. In 2008, the NPP came out with a hit
list claiming ex President Rawlings sent a mail to
state that the persons on the list would be killed
as soon as the NDC won the election.”

Kofi Adams added: “The won the election in 2008,
Pastor Mensah Otabil is still alive and moves
freely around and still preaching. Indeed
President Mahama recently gave Otabil’s
university a charter, no one even attacked him
with a blade, but the NPP could sponsor an agenda
that there was a hit list. The NPP knows that the
elections are up by next week so they are out
there to throw dust into the eyes of Ghanains to
get the electorate to vote against the NDC and
President Mahama, but that will not wash.”

Source - Kasapafm

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