NPP Primaries: It won’t be a smooth ride but I’ll win in Bekwai – COP Alex Mensah (Rtd)
Retired Commissioner of Police (COP) and New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate hopeful for the Bekwai constituency in the Ashanti Region, George Alex Mensah has admitted that the upcoming parliamentary election in the constituency will be tough but he will emerge as the winner.
According to him, despite the controversial stories surrounding his personality, he is very optimistic that the delegates will vote for him massively in the internal election.
“There are times that going forward you will have a lot of problems but that does not mean you should be disturbed, I am not disturbed about this happening, it just pushed me forward. Once I have an ambition, whether it happens I see it as a roadblock that I need to jump and I will jump it. I am focused and I need to do what I want to do regardless of whatever happens”.
He added, “It is not a small roadblock but in life that is what happens, anybody who thinks that he is going to have smoothness in life then he should be very careful because there will be roadblocks and you will need to jump those roadblocks, and go forward”.
“I see myself as one person who can help the people of Bekwai, who can serve the people of Bekwai very well, that is exactly what I want to do.
“I want to use my experience, and knowledge to assist the youth, and the community in their development. So I don’t see why I should go and relax when I have all the knowledge, I have the strength to do this for my community,” he noted in an interview monitored by The Ghana Report on 3FM.
“If I don’t do that then I am being selfish, I shouldn’t think of myself alone, I should think about my people. If my people need me to come and serve them why should I relax?” he questioned further.
It will be recalled that three senior police officers – COP George Alex Mensah, George Asare, and Emmanuel Gyebi, both superintendents, together with Daniel Bugri Naabu, a former Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), were captured in a conversation ostensibly plotting to remove the current IGP before the 2024 general elections.
While Daniel Bugri Naabu confirmed the tape’s contents, COP Alex Mensah and Superintendent George Asare denied the accuracy of the recording, alleging that portions had been “edited.”
COP Mensah contended that the tape had been doctored and did not reflect the original conversation with former NPP Northern Regional Chairman Bugri Naabu.
Additionally, he claimed that IGP George Akuffo Dampare had political affiliations with the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), a claim the IGP has described as baseless.
Meanwhile, COP Mensah is very optimistic that he will be vindicated when the report is released by the committee.