You have completed NDC’s campaign – Ekumfi MP to President Akufo-Addo

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ekumfi, Abeiku Crentsil, believes President Akufo-Addo has shot himself in the foot, and his recent comments about Ekumfi place the NDC in a better position at the detriment of the President’s party, the NPP.

Though Mr Crentsil described the comments as unfortunate, he said it was an effective campaign tool that would boost the fortunes of the NDC in the upcoming 2024 elections.

“I can say that the President has more or less spoken for the people to keep voting for the NDC. Indeed, he knows that if the NPP is in power for whatever number of years, there is nothing they can offer the people of Ekumfi. He’s finished our campaign for us,” he said.

He was reacting to comments passed by President Nana Akufo-Addo about developmental issues at Ekumfi.

In a meeting with the Kyedomhemaa of Ekumfi Traditional Area, Nana Enyimfua III, the President explained that the area was underdeveloped because constituents voted out the NPP parliamentary candidate, Francis Ato Cudjoe, in the 2020 elections.

President Akufo-Addo said he appointed the MP as Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture to bring development to the area.

But once he lost the seat to the NDC, the people of Ekumfi also lost their developmental projects.

However, the MP has argued that the NPP has occupied the seat longer than the NDC, and if the NPP wanted to develop the area, they could have done that.

“It is a very unfortunate statement, a very, very unfortunate talk because this is my second term of being an MP for the people of Ekumfi. And indeed, when you go to Ekumfi, whatever development is being done is by the NDC or NDC government by then. It is unfortunate that the NPP has been in power for the past eight years, and they cannot point to one project they have done for the people of Ekumfi.”

“I think if the President is talking to the people of this country, I think he should say something comfortable. He shouldn’t say things like that. I was unhappy when I heard it,” he stated in an interview on Accra-based Citi FM.