A former Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr Samuel Sarpong, has revealed that all former appointees in the former president John Dramani Mahama-led administration have pledged their unflinching support for the comeback of the former president for the 2024 general elections.
According to him, the former appointees have pledged to ensure the former president wins the May 13, 2023, simultaneous parliamentary and presidential primaries by 96 per cent.
He said the former appointees organised by Madam Sherry Ayittey, a former Minister of Health in the late president Prof Mills-led administration, pledged their support for the comeback bid of the former president at his residence after the campaign picked nomination forms on his behalf on Tuesday, February 21, 2023.
Dr Sarpong made this revelation in an interview with Kwabena Bobie Ansah, host of 'The Citizen Show' on Accra 100.5 FM on Thursday, February 23, 2023.
He said the meeting with the former president was like an old-school gathering where people you have not seen for ages were all present.
He said at the meeting the former appointees' resolved to see former president Mahama come back to save the nation from the shackles of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
"So any former appointee who set out to contest the former president has lost it," he firmly said.
He further said at the meeting, functional executives of the party were directed to involve all former appointees in all their activities at the branch, constituency, regional and national levels.
"It was the former president who appointed Mr Kojo Bonsu and it was the same former president who flew to the Ashanti Region to beg Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II when as Municipal Chief Executive for Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, he had issues with the chiefs in the Ashanti Region over his temperament.
"Unfortunately one of our own has taken the route of contesting his boss," he said.