A defeated New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary aspirant has attributed his loss to threats by his opponent to invoke the wrath of a powerful deity ‘Antoa’ on the delegates.
According to the Member of Parliament for the Afigya Sekyere East constituency in the Ashanti Region, Henry David Yeboah, the delegates were afraid to vote for him because they feared the consequences of incurring the wrath of ‘Antoa.’
[contextly_sidebar id=”v1nEtbqj9WnA0jlsib5uRID7gTQvWhH5″]“He came on radio and accepted it that he had imposed curses on about 480 to 500 delegates and had given them 500 cedis that if they don’t vote for his daughter, they will die. He claimed on Kessben and Nhyria FM that he is a devil.”
Henry Yeboah who is serving his third term as MP lost in the primaries to a 26-year-old Mavis Nkansah Boadu.
In an interview with Citi News, the legislator claimed the delegates were compelled to vote for the lady after receiving death threats and bribes from her father who is a traditional chief.
“Before we started the vetting, there was a chief from Nzema called Nana Kofi Boadu… and before we started voting he was calling delegates from my constituency and everytime they go, they give them 500 Ghana cedis each and impose curses on them that: ‘if you don’t vote for my daughter, this river Antoa will kill you,” he remarked.
He pointed out that the lady’s father even came out publicly to declare that he was evil.
The MP admitted that he also gave some money out to influence delegates to vote for him but was quick to add that the delegates could not endorse his candidature because they had been threatened.
Meanwhile Ms Yeboah has defended her victory, insisting that she took up the challenge because she felt the need to help improve the Afigya Sekyere East Constituency where she hails from.
“I’m from Yamoase, a town in the [Afigya Kwabre East] constituency and anytime I visit go there, I felt that they are lagging behind in so many things; including education.”
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By: Marian Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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