One of the regional chair contestants for the Ashanti Region, Mr Robert Asare Bediako, has confessed to paying GH¢1,000 to each of the delegates that took part in the governing New Patriotic Party’s recently-held delegates conference but still lost.
The incumbent, Mr Barnard Antwi Boasiako got retained.
Chairman Wontumi, as Mr Boasiako is called in political circles, polled 464 votes to beat his main contender Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, (COKA), who got 306 votes.
Mr Asare Bediako managed 22 votes while the other contenders, Kwabena Owusu Aduomi and Oheneba Kofi Adum Bawuah polled 9 and 3 votes, respectively.
Speaking to Akoma FM’s current affairs and political show, GhanAkoma, on Monday, 30 May 2022, Mr Bediako said “while I was paying each delegate GH¢1,000, I thought I would win but some paid more than me so the delegates also gave in to the highest bidder and it’s very worrying the trend of monetisation in our body politics.”
