Emmanuel Attah Obeng aka Chairman Soborae, the
National Democratic Congress (NDC) former Mpraeso Constituency chairman, Eastern
Region, has pitched camp with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) barely two weeks to
the general election.According to him, he is prepared to campaign
rigorously to see the NDC voted out of power because “the party has done the
people of Ghana more harm than good.”
Addressing a mammoth rally at
Kwahu-Mpraeso during the campaign launch of Seth Kwame Acheampong, the NPP
parliamentary candidate, on Sunday to announce his defection, the former NDC
constituency chairman stated that Ghanaians will have themselves to blame if
they retain President Mahama and the NDC in power.
“Never doubt me when I
talk about ills going on in the NDC. I’ve been constituency chairman for 16
years and have also been the organizer of the NDC National Chairmen’s
Association, so I was not by any means a small person in that party. After
failing to honour me, they’re plotting to kill me because I’ve changed my mind.
I’ve come to the NPP with thousands of people. Since the party came into power,
I cannot boast of even a bicycle after serving for so long a time. This is
painful and distressing,” he bemoaned.
Chairman Soborae added, “We are
destroying the NDC by depleting its members in the area. If I had not made my
mind to defect it would have been difficult for me to be here today. This is
because I’ve had a lot of calls from the national and the regional executives as
well as other big shots asking me not to leave the NDC.”
He observed,
“The wind of change is blowing; we can all feel Nana Akufo-Addo in the air. No
matter what the NDC does, it will lose the December 7 elections. Ghanaians are
fed up with their incompetence and the hardship brought on the people,” he
noted.
Chairman Soborae lost his position to the current constituency
chairman, Mahama Mohammed, in 2012.
Mr. Attah Obeng told DAILY GUIDE that
since an attempt was made by unknown persons to assassinate him, the party
hierarchy had forsaken him, adding that it was only the NPP chairman in the area
who came to comfort him. “I have joined the NPP with my members because, it’s a
peaceful party,” he claimed. |
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