Kwesi Pratt Jnr, the veteran journalist and Managing Editor of The Insight Newspaper has quizzed the former Minister of Communications and Digitalisation Ursula Owusu following her write-up on Facebook defending former President Akufo-Addo.
The veteran journalist noted that Ursula Owusu detailed that Akufo-Addo was personally paying 127 members of parliament after the state had already paid them.
Kwesi Pratt Jnr later quizzed the former minister if Akufo-Addo was that rich.
According to him, if the former president could pay 127 members of parliament after they were paid by the state Akufo-Addo was really sitting on money.
Speaking on Peace FM Kwesi Pratt stated, “Ursula Owusu has really spoken well, and she has written a lot. She said that during the eight years Akufo-Addo was president, he personally paid 127 MPs after the state had already paid them. Then that means Akufo-Addo was really sitting on the money”.
“She added that even what Akufo-Addo was paying MPs was more than what the state was paying them. She said that whenever the party needed funds, Akufo-Addo personally provided them,” he added.
Kwesi Pratt further warned that such revelations being made by the NPP members have unintended consequences for the party, “What they are doing they are collapsing their party,” he affirmed.
His comments come after Ursula Owusu-Ekuful quizzed New Patriotic Party (NPP) members who have been vilifying former President Akufo-Addo and blaming him for NPP’s defeat in the 2024 elections.
According to Ursula Owusu, if the NPP members do not appreciate Akufo-Addo’s efforts is the NPP worth dying for?
She revealed that Akufo-Addo held the party together for 8 years in opposition and 8 years in government and also actively worked to finance all structures of the party every month for 8 years, sending monthly allowances to every constituency, region and national office.
In a Facebook post Ursula Owusu-Ekuful wrote, “Nana Akufo-ADDO Thank you to all of you who are busy vilifying him today and blaming him for our defeat. I am sure you would all have given him the credit if we had won,”
Thank you for saying the man who held this party together for 8 years in opposition and 8 years in government, actively worked to ensure that his vice president, whom he had helped throughout their 16-year close relationship, lost”.
She reminded the NPP members that Akufo-Addo’s final ambition was to hand over an NPP president, she added, “Never mind that his final ambition was to hand over to an NPP president and he said so often. The man who financed all structures of the party every month for 8 years, sending monthly allowances to every constituency, region and national office, hates the NPP.
Not to mention the monthly top-up he provided for all MPs for 8 years, which was more than our take-home pay. We now say he wanted to destroy the party he sweated to help build? Thank you. The man who kept the lights on, and our children in school, provided jobs for countless people, and built more roads than any of his predecessors among others is now being seen as the worst villain. He thanks you all”.
Ursula Owusu-Ekuful further defended Akufo-Addo’s legacy, “If after a lifetime of sacrifice for democracy, the rule of law, and building our political brand, we can look him in the face or call him all manner of names behind his back—he says no problem. He accepts all the blame.
Just because he could not appoint every one of the 4 million plus core supporters and sympathisers of the NPP to positions in his government, those who didn’t get appointments or were dissatisfied in one way or the other blame him.
That’s fine. Like all humans, he also made mistakes but we expected more from him because he is superhuman??? But the question some of us are grappling with now is, if we don’t appreciate the efforts of people like Akufo-ADDO, is the NPP worth dying for?”, she quizzed.
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