Elisha Debrah
Odoom, the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) defeated aspiring candidate for the
Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam in the Central Region, has stated that he had no
intentions of giving out cars to constituents for free.
He had transported the saloon cars to the
election grounds to donate to the party on Saturday as part of his contribution
to getting the party re-elected in 2020 elections and
promised
to donate each of the branded cars to all the nine zones in the constituency
with the remaining one to be donated to the constituency office to ensure the
effective and efficient running of party activities.
However, this was not to be as Mr Odoom who was
so sure of representing the party lost to Rashid Kwesi Etuaful and when the votes were counted, he polled 67 votes as
against his contender who secured 411 votes.
But in a statement issued the defeated aspirant
said while he intended to give out the cars, it was based on a business module
and required payment and explained that the idea was to help the party become
economically independent at the grassroots.
“To this end, a special arrangement was made
with a car dealership to procure 10 small cars to be used as taxis to benefit
all party members and not just delegates in the nine zones of the constituency.
“This special arrangement was ‘work and pay’ kind as done in the normal scheme of things, the release and presentation of the cars was conditioned on the success of our candidature and as we speak, the cars have been sent back because having lost the election, we will not have the leverage to guarantee the compliance of the payment schedule as agreed with the car dealer,” Mr Odoom insisted. -adomonline.com
