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Accra, Ghana – A proxy war by interests groups for the Yendi Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on social media has taken a worrying turn.
Social media activists have not helped matters with an assortment of name-calling and mudslinging posts.
The Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MASLOC Hajia Abiba Shanni Mahama Zakariah, who has laced her boots to contest the seat when nominations are opened, has drawn sustained fire from the social media activists.
In a chat with DAILY GUIDE, a well composed Hajia Abiba Shanni Mahama reluctantly said: “As members of the same party and obsessed with maintaining the seat, we should all join hands in moving the NPP agenda forward. Allowing our parochial interests to supersede the party’s is not the best option.”
Dragging each other’s reputation in the mud as it is becoming the case in the constituency does not inure to the health of the party, Hajia Abiba added.
Continuing, she said: “Attacking the integrity of others is not my style but suffice it to state that I did not issue or sign school feeding letters because I do not work at the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP). The letters that I presented to the women were genuinely secured from the GSFP. My intention was to empower these women economically in order for them to be able to pay back loans given to them by MASLOC.”
In distributing the letters to the women, she pointed out: “I categorically stated that those loans were supposed to be used judiciously in the catering services so that recovery by MASLOC would be successful and the women would equally be in sustainable trade”.
The deputy CEO of MASLOC disclosed that a DCE and others resisted the women’s efforts at registering and eventually it turned out that somebody with an interest in the seat played a role in generating the avoidable dust by telling the Tatale DCE not to countenance the women.
“With these narrations, I was left with no option but to subsequently withdraw those letters while investigations are carried out to ascertain the authenticity of the said letters described by some persons as fake. It was very clear that the resistance from the MMDCEs was an afterthought, pushed by some persons to sabotage my commonly known effort of empowering the people of Yendi Constituency since I declared my intention to put myself for elections when the party opens nominations.”
Hajia Abiba Shanni Mahama Zakariah is the daughter of the late Alhaji Shanni Mahama a deputy minister under the Busia regime.
Source: daily guide
