Navrongo Central NPP primaries: Sheikh Achuliwor denies knowledge of campaign posters
Sheikh Otito said he was yet to declare his intensions, adding he has not instructed anyone to circulate or paste the posters to project him
The executive director of the Ghana Libya Arab Holding Company Limited (GLAHCO), Sheikh Abdallah Otito Achuliwor, has stated that he knows nothing about posters in circulation declaring his intension to contest the Navrongo Central constituency parliamentary primaries.
Sheikh Otito said he was yet to declare his intensions, adding he has not instructed anyone to circulate or paste the posters to project him and does not know the faceless individuals behind the act.
Parts of the Navrongo township and popular social media platform – Facebook – recently became awash with campaign posters of Sheikh Otito.
The posters, which have been mounted at notable locations in the constituency and widely circulated on social media, communicated that Sheikh Otito, a stalwart of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), was the ultimate candidate to front the party’s bid to take back the parliamentary seat from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2024 elections.
The posters, carrying a motto that urges sympathisers of the NPP to unite unconditionally for recapture of the seat, further indicated that there would not be any primaries to select a parliamentary candidate – rehashing the need to settle on Sheikh Otito.
But Sheikh Otito whose attention has been drawn to the material in circulation denies sanctioning it.
In a statement he released to the effect and copied to Asaase News, Sheikh Otito, who is a member of NPP’s Upper East Region Council of Patrons, said, “I have neither engaged nor have I been engaged by anybody or group on the 2024 Parliamentary primaries of our party and so, I have no knowledge of the activities of the said persons or group.”
“Without any doubt, this is the work of detractors who do not wish well for the NPP (particularly Navrongo central).”
He added that, “No persons or group of persons who have the welfare of our dear NPP at heart will impugn the provisions of our time-tested constitution and flout the guidelines so issued.”
Sheikh Otito, therefore, urged the public and members of the elephant fraternity to throw the posters being circulated to the dogs. He revealed that his focus at the moment was to help find a final resting place for his late brother and great patriot Joseph Kofi Adda, the former Minister for Aviation.
He noted that Joseph Kofi Adda contributed immensely to the development of Ghana, Kassena-Nankana and the New Patriotic Party, and the least he will do would be to desecrate his memory and legacies.
Below is the full statement:
Senyalah Castro
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