Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, the Member of Parliament for Effutu in the Central region, has denied allegations that he orchestrated some disturbances in his constituency during the district level elections.
The NDC Chairman, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, at a press conference in Accra Monday, January 08, 2024, said “in a dress rehearsal to perpetuate violence in the December 7 general elections, agents of the governing New Patriotic Party terrorised electorates at some polling stations including one in Mr Afenyo-Markin’s Constituency.”
But those allegations, made by the National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, according to Mr. Afenyo-Markin, are false.
The man who doubles as the Deputy Majority Leader told the press Tuesday, January 09, that he believes in politics of ideas than insults and if it was about political violence, then the NDC should be the ones Ghanaians should be wary of.
“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 stated.
The legislator is demanding from the NDC Chairman, an unqualified apology, for soiling a goodwill he has carted for himself in his political journey.
“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.
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