Alan Disowns Drug Convict

….says he is not a core member of his team.

Top aides of the Alan Kyeremanteng’s campaign have distanced themselves from Mr. Kofi Dokyi Ampaw, a.k.a Kofi 123 who was jailed 12 years over a drug related offence in the United States of America for his unsavory comments which insiders say fits the description of Nana Akuffo Addo.

Kofi 123 is rumored to have urged party voters to vote for someone who is handsome and not someone who is old and short like a Lilliput.

The distancing is part of efforts by the various campaign teams to guard against such unhealthy utterances from people outside the various core campaign teams who claim association to particular candidates.

Mr. Ampaw, who was fired by TV3 after Enquirer revealed his drug record in the US in 2008 as part of an investigation on how he obtained a huge controversial contract from the Ghana@50 Secretariat during in 2007.

Presently, The Enquirer gathered the man, who until recently was often seen in the company of close allies of Nana Akufo Addo, is in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region perpetuating his use of what some party insiders consider as foul language against other candidates.

But The Enquirer is in firm grip of information that he has incurred the wrath of the Alan campaign team, as the breaks had been pulled on his wheels for talking too much.

According to a highly placed source within the team, key communication members have had cause to raise concerns over the demeanor of Kofi 123.

“Our candidate and, indeed, the core members of his team have always cautioned those who attempt to talk as his supporters.

“Currently, the issue of foul language is gaining very bad grounds and we at this particular camp have decided not to be part of it.

“Therefore, anybody who will like to associate himself or herself with Alan-K should desist from the use of foul language,” the source said.

The source said that based on reports received by the core members of the campaign team, Kofi 123 was given a stern warning to desist from such acts. According to the source, Alan, who is the candidate, always endeavors to meet with the campaign members constantly to discuss the issue to be raised on platform.

“It is quite unfortunate for somebody, like Kofi 123, who is nowhere close to the candidate to behave like that,” the source said.

Asked about his fate if he continues to behave like that, the source said Mr. Ampaw, in the first place, is not a core member of the team and that, if it gets worse, he would be prevented from even supporting Alan K.

“Our move is quite simple and that is to showcase what our candidate has to lead the NPP and any thing apart from that will not be entertained,” the source added.

Kofi 123, who made time in prison in the United States of America for a drug related offence, hit to news in 2007, after he won a dubious contract from the Ghana@50 Secretariat to erect signposts in all the districts in the country, as part of monumental plan for the celebration.

Using his company, 2A Multi-media, he managed to swerve the people who mooted the idea of sending a proposal to the Ghana@50 Secretariat.

After collecting a mobilization fee of over ¢100 million from the Secretariat, he went on a spending spree and ended up in doing shoddy work for the government at the time.

Presently, none of the signposts he erected is visible, as the materials he used for the project were said to be of a poor quality.

At the time his cover was blown, he was the TV3 morning show host, but was promptly asked by the station to take a bow to enable him to purge himself of all allegations made against him. However, he could not, as there were enough evidence that he misconducted himself in connection with the Ghana@50 contract. As part of the game plan to extricate himself from the net, he organized a press conference at the International Press Centre in Accra and publicly wept, but could not tell how he won the contract at the Ghana@50 Secretariat.