The Member of Parliament (MP) for Abetifi Constituency in the Eastern Region, Bryan Acheampong has defended his recent remarks that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) will use every means to retain the Presidency come December 7, 2024 elections.
The MP, over the weekend at a campaign rally at Nsawam in the Eastern Region, stated that the NPP will use its human resources to win the election at all costs.
His comments have since sparked controversy, with others calling off the lawmaker over his utterances.
Mr. Acheampong, who doubles as Food and Agriculture Minister, clarified that his statement is void of inciting electoral violence among the youth, indicating he was misinterpreted by some sessions of the public.
He said “Omane Boamah said they [the NDC] were going to fight for political power and get 57.3 percent. What did the NPP say? Nothing, because we know that some of these thoughts are just for nothing.
“When the NDC said that we should go and carve our stool and sit on it and that they would never give us the presidential seat, what did we do? We know winning elections in this country, it is won at the polling station,” Bryan Acheampong said in an interview on Citi News.
Bryan Acheampong stressed that thou members of the NDC intend to misinterpret his comments, the election would be won at the polling stations.
“Whatever they [the NDC] want to do to win the election is what they are doing and then for the NPP, whatever we have to do to win the election is what we will do because at the end of the day, the votes will be cast and they will be counted and the winner will be declared.
“So, how come when they say something, there is nothing wrong, and then when I say that we will win the election, somebody says, why would I say that we will win the election?” he asked.
According to the minister, his statement rather affirmed the party’s efforts and strategies to secure victory.
