The Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, is demanding an unqualified apology from the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, for attributing some electoral violence in his constituency to him.
The lawmaker says he has built so much credibility for himself in his political career, a goodwill he would not allow Mr. Asiedu Nketia to destroy in a day.
The NDC Chairman had accused Mr. Afenyo-Markin of masterminding some violence in his constituency during the district level elections.
But addressing the media Tuesday, January 09, 2024, the Deputy Majority Leader listed his political ladder, and denied ever instigating violence during the December district level elections.
“There is transformation in Effutu under my leadership, and nobody can dispute that. I will not allow Mr Asiedu Nketiah and other NDC activists who have lost the political plot, who do not know how to manage my success in Efuttu to brand me. I am NOT into electoral violence.
“I started my political career as an assemblyman, served for 8 years, served a presiding member for 4 years before getting into the National Assembly . I didnt just get up to get here. I demand an unqualified apology from Mr Asiedu Nketiah for the lies he said about me and urge him to do politics honourably,” he indicated.
He continued that the NDC is the party Ghanaians ought to be afraid of when it comes to electoral violence.
“If it has to do with violence, we are rather afraid for our lives. We in the NPP are afraid for our lives, and I want to tell Asiedu Nketiah and his party folks that I do my politics on the strength of development. I don’t do politics of violence, I don’t attack anybody, and I don’t insult.
“I believe in an open discourse of ideas and that has been the reason why I have remained the MP and so I will not allow Asiedu Nketiah and other NDC activists who have lost the political plot and do not know how to manage my successes in Effutu to brand me. I am not into electoral violence and I do not believe in it and I have always won and won cleanly,” he reiterated.
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