[ 2016-01-31 ]

Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa

CPP congress voted for money – Akosa
A leading member of the Convention People’s
Party (CPP) Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa claims
delegates who voted in Saturday’s presidential
primaries, voted for money.

In what was a surprising outcome from Saturday’s
National Delegates’ Congress, Ivor Greenstreet
fended off competition from Samia Nkrumah,
daughter of Ghana’s first president, Dr. Kwame
Nkrumah to emerge victorious.

Greenstreet garnered 1,288 votes representing 64%
of the valid votes cast as against Samia's 579
votes. Other candidates, Bright Akwetey and Joseph
Agyepong, secured 42 and 83 votes respectively.
The total votes cast was 2006 with 14 rejected
ballots.

The former General Secretary of the CPP would thus
lead the party into the November elections and
would face NPP’s Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and
NDC’s John Mahama.

But Prof. Akosa who tipped Samia to win with more
than 80 percent of votes cast expressed his
disappointment with delegates after the results
were declared.

The former Director General of the Ghana Health
Services said even though he would accept the
choice of the delegates, he finds it sad that they
decided to sell their vote.

“This is not the results that I expected but
congress has spoken and as a democrat I have to
accept the results,” Prof. Akosa told Class FM
Saturday.

He added “CPP has voted for money…that is the
choice of congress sadly and as a democrat I have
to accept but congress has voted for money.”

Source - Starrfm

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