Wayo Was The Cause Of Our Defeat - NPP

The leadership of the New Patriotic Party at a press conference yesterday blamed their loss of the Ayawaso East Parliamentary seat on their candidate, Mr. Charles Kofi wayo. According to Mr. Dan Botwe, the party’s General secretary, the NPP lost the East Ayawaso Parliamentary slot because of vague utterances and promises made by Mr. Wayo.

Answering a question from this reporter suggesting that Mr. Wayo’s inability to deliver on his campaign promises of providing 750,000 jobs for Ghanaians during the first year of President Kufour’s administration was a failure on the part of the party, Mr. Botwe said failure on the part of an individual party member to deliver on a campaign promise could not mean failure on the part of the party leadership.

“I wonder if the people in his constituency are even up to 750,000, and that’s why he lost the seat”, Mr. Botwe asserted and observed that Mr. Wayo lost the seat because his constituents did not take his promise seriously.

“The fact that he lost meant the people did not take him seriously”, he stressed, adding that a campaign promise by one Parliamentary aspirant could not overshadow that of the party’s 200 members who aspired to the position of MP’s.

When pressed further that the NPP on whose platform Wayo made the promises, and especially in the full glare of some party leaders did not disassociate itself from his utterances, which to some extent won the party some political points, Mr. Botwe shrewdly brushed that off, and zeroed the blame on Wayo who is now regarded by the party leadership as a torn in their flesh for his constant criticisms of President Kufour’s administration.