NDC’s Sorkpa Agbleze Blasts NPP Volta Regional Chairman

A  Volta Regional Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sorkpa K. Agbleze has lashed out at the ruling New Patriotic Party’s Regional Chairman, Mr Makafui Woanya.

In a statement sighted by MyGhanaMedia.com, Mr. Sorkpa K. Agbleze stated that  “Mr. MAKAFUI WOANYA, the current NPP Volta Regional Chairman, who has succeeded in gaining notoriety for always being at the nadir any time he makes public pronouncements, has missed another sober opportunity to allow the mood and expectations of his own people in the Volta Region inform his press conference held few days ago”.

“Apparently, the people of the Region were in high hope that the NPP Regional Chairman’s address will touch on the current ever increasing prices of common consumables, goods and services in the Region and the Country, as well as the draconian policies of an inept government which has resulted in the erosion of many citizens’ investments in mutual funds, bonds and other such investment portfolios.”

According to Mr. Sorkpa K. Agbleze, these are the crux of the crucial issues bothering the minds of the people in the Region, and not the unnecessary and annoying tribal sentiments and bigotry that are being inflamed by the NPP Regional Chairman.

Read the full statement below: 

PRESS RELEASE BY VOLTA NDC

21ST JANUARY 2023

THE NPP VOLTA REGIONAL CHAIRMAN REALLY LACKS UNDERSTANDING OF THE MOOD AND EXPECTATIONS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE VOLTA REGION

Mr. MAKAFUI WOANYA, the current NPP Volta Regional Chairman, who has succeeded in gaining notoriety for always being at the nadir any time he makes public pronouncements, has missed another sober opportunity to allow the mood and expectations of his own people in the Volta Region inform his press conference held few days ago.

Apparently, the people of the Region were in high hope that the NPP Regional Chairman’s address will touch on the current ever increasing prices of common consumables, goods and services in the Region and the Country, as well as the draconian policies of an inept government which has resulted in the erosion of many citizens’ investments in mutual funds, bonds and other such investment portfolios.

In reality, these are the crux of the crucial issues bothering the minds of the people in the Region, and not the unnecessary and annoying tribal sentiments and bigotry that are being inflamed by the NPP Regional Chairman.

It is obvious that Mr. Woanya, like many in that party, is highly uncomfortable and insecure about the massive attention and goodwill being enjoyed by the NDC, a party that is more than well positioned to not only recapture the Hohoe parliamentary seat but to also decisively win the 2024 General Elections. Clearly, the constant tribal incitement is nothing but the last straw meant to give them some semblance of relevance.

For the NPP Regional Chairman to say the NDC is pushing a tribal agenda in the Volta Region, is clearly an inverted pyramid of a piffle. This is so because history and recent happenings confirm the general incontrovertible belief that the NPP is nothing but a group of tribal bigots whose survival in Ghana’s political space is to always play the tribal card at the least opportunity.

Is it not shameful that Mr. Woanya is one of those indegenes who are proud about the current state of the overhyped Keta Port, where evidently there is no work ongoing yet for all these years a CEO is receiving fat salaries at the expense of the poor taxpayer with only containers and a billboard to show for it?

The Regional Chairman’s praises and gloatings over the current disgraceful state of the purported Keta Port clearly shows he does not in any way appreciate and respect the mood and expectations of the people of Keta. He is no doubt adding to the insult of the intelligence of his own people, the hallmark of the NPP communicators.

The people of the Region expect the Regional Chairman to talk about the promise made by the Finance Minister to commit some money towards the continuation of the Sea Defense Project along the Anlo, Keta and Ketu South lines to forestall the ravaging impact of the ever visiting tidal waves.

The people of the Region expect the Regional Chairman to touch on the most pressing issues affecting Anlo and Keta, where he comes from, such as the flooding of homes and farms by the Keta lagoon so as to improve the economic livelihood of the people within that enclave.

I firmly call on the NPP Regional Chairman and the entire NPP to be empathetic and less heartless enough to speak to the promise made by their disappointing Finance Minister to allocate funds in the budget to address the issue of the tidal waves, the reason behind the high cost of goods and excruciating suffering in the Region.

I therefore unreservedly and unashamedly reiterate the clarion call by the NDC General Secretary for the people of the Volta Region to see their belongingness to the NDC as a religion.

Signed:
Sorkpa K. Agbleze.

Volta Regional Communications Officer