Former General Secretary of the opposition NPP Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John, has sought to question the marketability of the 22-year-old parliamentary aspirant of the Party for the Kwabre East Constituency, Francisca Oteng-Mensah.
In a no-holds-barred Monday morning interview session with Fiifi Banson on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.3 FM, Sir John took her and a host of others to the cleaners, alleging the delegates who voted for her were largely influenced with money.
He decried the alleged act, saying it does very little to help her campaign.
“This is a 22-year old level 200 student who is yet to complete school and also do her National Service. So you take this 22-year-old on a campiagn tour and say you go to pay the chiefs a courtesy call, and you are asked where is the MP, and you tell them there she is.
“It is sad. She will go to parliament and then would virtually become a white elephant. Nothing good will come out of her.
“I am disappointed in the people of Kwabre. So we are going to sit down for another four years without nothing good happening to us… Look at our roads… Some of the decisions the delegates make were influenced by monetary consideration.”
Sir John told Banson the young lady was a novice who would need help in appealing to the larger voting populace.
“We will have to train her. She is a novice. We will have to help her even in terms of taking her round to the chiefs and opinion leaders and all that.”
Oteng-Mensah won Saturday’s elections with some 331 votes, beating the incumbent MP Kofi Frempong who had 189 votes. The other contestant Adjei Sefa had 33 votes.
The NPP went to the polls to elect parliamentary candidates in 245 constituencies for the 2016 elections.
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
