Outgoing member of Parliament for Asante Akim North, Andy Appiah-Kubi has revealed that the former finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta was more powerful than President Akufo-Addo.
Andy Appiah Kubi noted that when President Akufo-Addo asked Ken Ofori Atta to do something he refused that it won’t happen.
According to him, Ken Ofori Atta claimed he procured victory for the New Patriotic Party in the 2020 elections.
Speaking on TV3, Andy Appiah Kubi detailed, “The man was too powerful if you even go you wouldn’t get what you wanted, too powerful, than even the president, the president will tell him to go and do this he will say ‘la lie’ it won’t happen, he came to our meeting and said that I procured this victory for us”.
“That was the first time I stood up and said my friend, what are you saying, I didn’t see your hands in Asante Akim North, so if you help people procure victory I didn’t see you at Asante Akim North and it cannot be the case that you a singular person procure victory for everybody and then he sat back”, he added.
The member of parliament also revealed that his advocacy began after that meeting when Ken Ofori-Atta claimed he procured victory for the NPP.
Andy Appiah-Kubi, who was one of the main proponents of the #KenMustGo campaign to get former Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, to resign.
He lost his seat to an independent candidate, Ohene Kwame Frimpong in a landslide defeat. The independent candidate won with 26,926 votes, while Mr. Appiah-Kubi got 8,933 votes.
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