A stalwart of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Betty Nah-Akuyea Mould-Iddrisu, has reiterated her stance that the dynamics of the 2024 elections will not be the same compared to the previous years, regarding the fortunes of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region.
The elephant fraternity have been receiving an average of 70 per cent of the votes from the Ashanti Region since the Fourth Republic, thus earning the title ‘World Bank’ of the NPP.
But according to the former Attorney-General, Mould-Iddrisu, residents of the regi on have come to the realisation that the NPP has always taken them for a ride when it comes to development, indicating the charade of the government will not alter what the people have decided this time around.
Speaking on Hot Issues on TV3 Sunday, April 28, 2024, the former Minister of Education noted that the construction equipment the government has deployed in the region because it is an election year, will not influence the people who have made up their minds already.
“I told you I’m there and I was definitely there throughout 2020 and it’s exactly the same things that they did so now the Ashantis are saying ‘Mopɛ sɛ mobu yɛn kwasea biom? Yɛmmpene o!’ to wit, we won’t allow you to take us for granted anymore; bringing in articulated [trucks], land excavators, land graders to come and do roads. We even saw it at the Kumawu by-election and even at Assin North,” she said.
According to her, “Ashantis now know, the old women in the village now know that this is the modus operandi, to come and excuse me to say, blinker us, I don’t want to say fool us. But this is what they do [and] it is not being taken seriously at all.”
As a resident of the region herself, Madam Mould-Iddrisu explained how they have suffered the past few months with intermittent power outages, maintaining that the problem has been worse even after commissioning the renamed Ameri Power Plant.
“And they believe that they have suffered. I come from a small village in Kwabre and I tell you, what we suffered, I was home last week, the dumsor, after the renaming of Ameri Power Plant, the dumsor that we have experienced in Ashanti region is unparalleled even during our time, there wasn’t dumsor like that and people are really now fed up,” she alleged.
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