The members of opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have bet their last coin, saying the behaviour of Member of Parliament (MP) for Tema East for ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Titus Glover is a clear indication of his defeat.

In view of the current happens in the constituency, the biggest opposition party is convened the incumbent MP’s attempts to intimidate his rival, Isaac Ashai Odamtten, in the contest for the Tema East seat shows, he is going down on Monday.

The umbrella party is of the conviction that there is no doubt that Isaac Ashai Odamtten, the NDC Parliamentary Candidate for Tema East is a formidable candidate, and, for that matter it is natural for any contender to be squirrelly tensed.

In a release issued by the Constituency Secretary of the Tema East NDC Mr Abdulai Siedu yesterday, says the clumsy show of political anxiety is understandable, for Mr Glover to engage in antiquated political machination to persecute his political opponent is most shocking. 

According to Mr Abdulai, Mr Glover’s attitude only speak to portray that on the day that the monkey is destined to die, all the branches become slippery.

Thus the incumbent MP knowing for sure that he will lose the Monday’s Presidential and Parliamentary, hence had opted to the intimidation of Isaac Ashai Odamtten.

He said Mr Glover had boasted publicly on various media platforms that, he has ordered the arrest of Isaac Ashai Odamtten, but to his surprise the party and the government have not distanced themselves from the MP actions.

Meanwhile, Article 88 of the 1992 Constitution is clear on the mandate of the Attorney General and the Minister for Justice on prosecution public officials who are found to be corrupt.

This, he concludes that the action being taken by the incumbent MP is either the government is conniving with him to intimidate and persecute Mr Ashai, or the Attorney General is lacking the quality and substance required of a Minister for Justice. 

According to him, Mr Ashai Odamtten is morally and politically unsullied, and the attempt to always remind the people of Tema about the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) issue by Mr Glover, is an indication of fear and jumpiness.

“The self-defeating attempt to hoodwink the good people of Tema East to believe that there is substance in the EOCO issue should be treated with outright contempt,” he said. “The constituents have made up their mind to change, and no amount of mudslinging will change the resolve of the good people of Tema East.”

Security presence in Tema East needless

In his view, the attempt to always dig up dirt on political opponents would be met fiercely, as “We are by this release asking the National Security Minister to as a matter of urgency withdraw the military and naval officers deployed in Tema Newtown. The tension being created in the Tema East Constituency is needless.” 

Mr Siedu suggested that to avert the heightened fear and insecurity in the country, the government should rather be focusing on implementing policies that will mitigate the insecurity and not intimidating its political opponents with unsubstantiated allegations.

“We in the NDC would want to call on the media, the good people of Tema East, and all stakeholders to join the Rescue Mission to deliver the good people of Ghana from stinking corruption, untidy nepotism, intimidation, persecution, sectionalism, cronyism, and family and friends’ type of government being practised by the current NPP administration,” he enforced.

By Akutu Dede Adimer