Osei Kyei Mensah goes wild: “Nana Addo and his coterie spends $90,000 on Hotels and food in Kumasi every weekend”





The Minority Leader and NPP MP for Suame Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu who is arguably one of Ghana’s long-standing legislatures, has opened venom on the twice-defeated Flagbearer of the party, Nana Akufo-Addo, describing his open display of opulence, as a waste of money.



On an audio recording, circulating within the NPP circles, which no doubt is the voice of the Minority leader, is heard describing Nana Addo and his coterie as having misplaced priorities and spending monies on luxuries activities when such funds could be channeled to win seats in Parliament.



“…Akufo-Addo sleeps in a private residence anytime he visits Kumasi. Apart from some people who cook for him, most of the rest follow him because of other interests when it comes to the Ashanti Region. His coterie of followers who go to sleep at the Golden Tulip Hotel; You know how much they were spending? The cost to be paid by the campaign team was 90,000 dollars. If we had given to some two constituencies, they would have won for us. “Such a leader”? We will not allow you do that because in my view now we don’t have money for campaign.”



He further touched on the pure logistics planning in the last elections.

“Then somebody goes to import bicycles, motor bicycles and vuvuzelas. What are we using vuvuzelas for? Do you know how much vuvuzelas cost? Some people take advantage to import vuvuzelas! . The vuvuzelas alone cost 1.5 million dollars."



It will be recalled, that the National Chairman, in a press conference that was invaded by thugs, made some revelations to some secret dollar accounts being operated in the name of the Party. This latest revelation by the minority leader who doubles as a member of the steering committee, is generating lots of uproar within the party as many begin to wonder the real reason behind Nana Addo’s come back. Is it Power or Business as usual?