Party defectors were enticed financially – Abu
Sakara alleges
The leader
of the National Interest Movement (NIM), Dr. Abu Sakara Foster, asserts that
the youngsters who defected from Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen's Movement for Change
and rejoined the New Partriotic Party (NPP) were enticed financially.
On Monday,
April 22, a number of youthful politicians declared their return to the NPP
after previously leaving to join Alan Kyerematen's Movement for Change. During
a press conference, the group, headed by Adentan's former NPP Parliamentary Candidate,
Alfred Ababio Kumi, admitted that leaving the NPP was a mistake.
In a
statement issued on the same day, the
Nationwide Supporters of Alan Cash (NAWSAC)
raised alarm about the NPP's tactics and warned the youth not to be
persuaded by cash temptations. They accused the NPP of allegedly attempting to
bribe the young into abandoning Alan Kyerematen's Movement for Change and
joining the NPP.
Dr. Abu
Sakara denied knowing the leader of the defectors, describing their choice to
depart from the Movement for Change as "insignificant". He added that
persons pursuing political advantage will always migrate to other political
parties, affirming that their union is one of conviction.
“That is good
news, it means that they are taking us seriously. What is new in Ghana that we
have not seen before? They go around and get some people who are not even
important. I don’t even know this person and have never met this person. I have
no idea who he is, and many of the other people also don’t know him”, he said.
“We know
that many people were approached to be induced with money to defect. That they
know, he’s the only one who has done it, and you cannot tell me that in one
hundred sheep, there cannot be one black one. It’s even good that people who
you planned maybe to rely on moved out now. In case they become polling agents
and then that one will be too late”, he added.
Dr. Sakara
said they are not here to force people to be with them, instead, they are here
to have an alliance of conviction but not an alliance of convenience. He
explained that people who are looking for political convenience will always
defect to one area or another which is more convenient, and that they are
trying to build a political conviction that will be sustainable and durable.
By Rasheeda
Mackeela Abubacar