Majority Chief Rockson Nelson Dafaamekpol has dismissed strategies that the continuing nationwide tour by NDC Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketiah is an early marketing campaign for the occasion’s flag bearer race.
Showing on Pleasure Information’ PM Categorical on Tuesday, South Dai stated the Speaker’s go to to the constituency started lengthy earlier than the present hypothesis surfaced and was rooted within the calls for of occasion supporters after the 2024 election victory.
“I do not know. I usually discuss to the occasion chairman, and I spoke to him right this moment, however I have never had an opportunity to ask him about this,” he stated.
“What I do know is that he has been doing this tour since round April 2025, simply when John Mahama accomplished his ministerial appointments and did his regional tour.”
He stated a gathering of the Nationwide Government Committee raised complaints that President John Dramani Mahama visited supporters after the election however that the occasion itself was not correctly partaking with the grassroots.
“They stated the occasion had fought onerous, we had been in opposition for eight years, so the occasion ought to come to the bottom and present their gratitude,” he defined.
Dafaamekpol stated the train took time due to the dimensions and logistics concerned.
“He is been doing this for the previous yr. You already know, the logistical mobilization to go to these constituencies is not any joke. So he is doing it methodically.”
He argued that the chair’s strikes shouldn’t robotically be interpreted as presidential ambitions.
“So his marketing campaign to go earlier than the folks, to go to the constituencies and thank occasion officers and stakeholders just like the Lord Chief Minister and the Queen Mom and among the organizations which have supported us, did not begin yesterday. So I do not understand how that matches in and impacts the marketing campaign agenda as a flag.”
Requested whether or not this place gave the chairman an unfair benefit over potential candidates, Dafaamekpol demurred.
“I believe the query folks must be asking is: Is the chairman going round claiming to be the usual bearer?”
The South Dai MP additionally rejected claims that the present tour is unprecedented.
Requested if the same train had taken place in 2021, he stated: “Sure, we have been in opposition to it. Go and examine the report.”
He recalled that the Speaker had extensively toured the constituency throughout that interval.
“He got here to my constituency. In truth, he visited three areas of my constituency. He visited Kpewe, he visited Piki, he visited Tongo and we took him to Gemeni market.”
Dafaamekpol revealed that Asiedu Nketiah conveyed a extra aggressive political message throughout his 2021 marketing campaign.
“He needs to guarantee them that we received the election however we have been fooled so they need to imagine us and in 2024 he’ll lead the group and destroy the NPP.”
“These have been among the messages he acquired, and that was Basic Mosquito for you,” he added.
He argued that the Speaker’s present tour follows the identical sample as earlier post-election actions and shouldn’t be seen as something uncommon.
