Delegates from the Sefwi Wiawso Constituency in the Western North Region are threatening to boycott the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Presidential and Parliamentary elections over an alleged GH40 given to each delegate from former President John Dramani Mahama’s campaign team.
The delegates said that officials of the party in the constituency are plotting to deny them the money that is supposed to be supplied to them to help them go to their different voting locations.
“Former president John Mahama gave us GH¢40 and the constituency executives just want to take the money and if they don’t release that money, we are not going to vote,” one delegate said.
The NDC’s Western North regional secretary, George Ofori Danquah, rejected the charges, explaining that the money would be handed to them in addition to what the party would have paid them as a transit fee.
“It is the party that supports the delegates’ transport but God being so good, former president Mahama eased the situation by seeding an amount of GH¢40 for every delegate. So yesterday [May 12] we met with the constituency leadership and agreed that the amount given by the party will not be sufficient, so we agreed that the GH¢40 be added to the constituency budget to be given as transport and per the budget, everything is in order, and so I don’t see why they are saying they are to be given cash at hand.”
