Rachel Appoh Says She Paid Electorates To Slash The Probability Of Them Voting Against President Mahama In The NDC Primaries

As Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama is struggling to come to terms as to why some electorates voted against him; Member of Parliament for (MP) Gomoa Central, Florence Rachel Appoh, says she deserves ‘commendation’ because she paid people to rescind their decision to vote against the President.

According to her, things would have been worse if she didn’t adopt the strategy of canvassing for votes for the President through ‘vote buying’.

“I worked tirelessly before managing to reduce the NO VOTE against the President. The people wanted to vote against President Mahama because they feel they have been denied the LEAP initiative by the Gender and Social Protection Ministry. If you look at the District LEAP initiative poverty ranking, we are second and so my people do not understand why they should be denied that initiative,” She told Fiifi Banson in an interview on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.3 FM Monday.

She added “I have to spend for the NO VOTE against the President to get reduced to 350. Even with this figure, I cried, begged and paid some money to some people before I was able to achieve that.”

However, a nationwide results declared by the Electoral Commission indicates that, a total number of 61,836 NO votes, representing 4.9% of total votes, were recorded against President Mahama- while 1,199,118, representing 95.10% votes YES were cast to sustain him as the presidential candidate for the NDC in the upcoming elections in 2016.