A New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary aspirant in the Korle Klottey constituency, Nii Noi Nortey\u00a0has reacted angrily to accusations that he presented a fake University of Ghana certificate to the party\u2019s Vetting Committee.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Nortey said the accusations do not have any merit.<\/p>\n “I haven\u2019t discussed or submitted any University of Ghana document to anybody or individual\u2026it\u2019s a personal document I submitted to the NPP’s Vetting Committee so if they wish to make claims or open up any issue on the form, so be it before I can answer… I have gone through vetting, I\u2019ve been cleared to contest. Those allegations are false.”<\/p>\n One Joshua Rockson, has reportedly petitioned the Commissioner of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) challenging the authenticity of the certificate Nii Nortey allegedly earned from the University of Ghana.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”EU2q0luxNHIhnv33jYL0Jypw3d75FL8J”]Although Nii Nortey will not categoricallly deny the accusations, he said he is convinced that the party\u2019s Appeal\u2019s Committee will fairly deal with the matter.<\/p>\n \u201cThe matters are pending before the National Appeals committee. It will be wrong for me to be making comments before appearing before the committee. So I\u2019m telling you that after the Appeals Committee they will bring out their verdict and you will know whether I attended the University of Ghana or not,\u201d he fumed.<\/p>\n He also refuted claims that he was invited to the CID headquarters in Accra.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, speaking\u00a0in a seperate interview with\u00a0Citi News\u2019 <\/strong>Franklin Badu Jnr, Nii Noi Nortey described the allegations as \u201cpropaganda” being used by his opponents.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say some persons are trying to make things difficult, I would say it\u2019s a competition so I expect more of these and even worse things that could happen.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked why he feels such claims were being peddled by his opponents, Nii Nortey explained that \u201cbecause it\u2019s a competition and they know they are losing, they know they are not on the grounds, they know the delegates will not vote for them that\u2019s why they are bringing up these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThese are internal elections we are about going and I don\u2019t believe as a party man, if an opponent in an internal election has an issue even like that, I don\u2019t believe I will run to the media to wash our dirty linings out there because what I\u2019m doing is that I\u2019m exposing the party to the main opposition parties. So I believe internal elections we don\u2019t play these kind of propaganda issues and stuff like that,” he added.<\/p>\n