A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has called on members of the NPP to stop feeling sorry for themselves.
According to Gabby Otchere-Darko, the NPP must not wallow in sorrow but must be bold in defending what they did in government under former President Akufo-Addo.
The NPP man cautioned that members indulging in self-pity could dampen and weaken their resolve ahead of the 2028 elections.
Speaking at an event for some NPP members abroad, Gabby Otchere-Darko stated, “Stop feeling sorry because sometimes, if you are not careful and you feel too sorry for yourself, you begin to lose confidence in yourself. You must be bolder in defending what you did, you must be humble in accepting where you fell short, and you must have the confidence enough to say in spite of this and that, I can tell you I built more roads than any government that has spent the number of time I spent in office.
I can tell you I did more for health, agriculture, education, military, the police, I did more for so many areas. You can say all that because the facts are there”.
Gabby added, “Have the humility to accept that there were some omissions and commissions that could have been done better or differently. But don’t wallow in sorrow, if you wallow in sorrow, you will go down or stay where you are”.
He further added former Akufo-Addo government did not snub the Ashanti region, “I heard somebody saying in the Ashanti Region that we let Ashantis down because we didn’t fix their roads. NPP let Ashantis down because they didn’t have flyovers. But I had been in meetings where MPs from the Ashanti region had said that they did not need flyovers, but they want their community roads done, and in politics, you are supposed to give people what they say they want, not what you think they want.
They wanted their community roads, and when you look at the number of roads that were done in Ashanti per capita across the country, you can’t say NPP let Ashanti Region down. Yet an NPP person was apologising for disappointing the Ashantis for neglecting the Ashanti region”.
Meanwhile, Eugene Boakye Antwi, the former member of parliament for Subin, has said the former finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta told them in a caucus meeting in parliament that elections are not won win roads.
The former Subin MP refuted claims made by Gabby Otchere-Darko regarding Ashanti region MPs and their road choices.
Speaking on Nhyira FM, Eugene Boakye Antwi stated, “When it gets to a point, NPP members want to put themselves in trouble. If you say this, and someone else goes to explain. You people have been bringing up the issues. I was an MP. What he is saying, I know he is not being truthful.
If you want the truth, the NPP members listened to me when we had a caucus meeting in parliament, when Ken Ofori-Atta came, he looked into our faces, the MPs and told us that we don’t use roads to win elections”.
He added, “You can call any MP who was in the room. We went to a caucus meeting, all the MPs in Ghana met in the parliament house. He told us we don’t use roads to win elections.
They should let sleeping dogs sleep. When some of us hear these things when you speak and you are not being truthful, we will come and explain it”.
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