{"id":285461,"date":"2017-01-17T06:06:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T06:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=285461"},"modified":"2017-01-17T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T06:06:10","slug":"opuni-contributed-to-ndcs-defeat-nukpenu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/opuni-contributed-to-ndcs-defeat-nukpenu\/","title":{"rendered":"Opuni contributed to NDC’s defeat – Nukpenu"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Greater Accra Regional Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Anthony\u00a0Nukpenu, has said the immediate past Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD),\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Stephen K. Opuni, contributed to the NDC\u2019s defeat in the 2016 polls.<\/p>\n
Dr.\u00a0Opuni, who was recently directed by the Presidency to\u00a0handover\u00a0to\u00a0the president\u2019s representative at the Ministry of Agriculture, has bee accused of not connecting with members of the NDC thus contributing to voter apathy.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Mr. Nukpenu insisted that “his [Opuni’s] role has also caused our defeat. I have friends, workers of the COCOBOD who told me in the face that; we are not going to vote for you people in 2016 because you created a monster between us and our CEO therefore we will not vote for NPP, but we will not vote NDC either.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHow did we suffer our defeat; because apathy set in. people refused to go to the polls,\u201d the NDC executive pointed out as he indicated that there were senior members of the NDC who were bitter over Dr. Opuni’s attitude.<\/p>\n \u201cI know senior members of government and party who are bitter about Opuni and will not come out to talk. They are even more dangerous than me talking,\u201d Mr. Nukpenu stated.<\/p>\n