{"id":272770,"date":"2011-01-04T22:10:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T22:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=44690"},"modified":"2011-01-04T22:10:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T22:10:50","slug":"ndebugre-cletus-avoka-masterminded-my-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/04\/ndebugre-cletus-avoka-masterminded-my-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ndebugre: Cletus Avoka Masterminded My Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_37826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37826\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-37826\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/11\/28\/ndebugri-why-not-mp-again-if-npp-see-me-fit\/john_ndebugri\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37826\" title=\"john_ndebugri\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/john_ndebugri.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Ndebugri<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nJohn Ndebugre, a former member of  parliament of Zebilla who lost in his bid to become an assembly member  at the Timonde Electoral Area of the Bawku West District in the Upper  East region has blamed Majority Leader in Parliament, Cletus Avoka for  his failure to win the seat.<br \/>\nNdebugre alleges that Cletus Avoka  who defeated him in the 2008 parliamentary elections resourced the Bawku  West District Chief Executive and other loyalists of the MP to  undermine his bid to become the assembly member for the area.<br \/>\nMr  John Ndebugre\u2019s decision to run for the district assembly elections was  described as a major self-demotion never seen in the country\u2019s recent  political history.<br \/>\nJohn Ndebugre who switched allegiance from the  Peoples National Convention (PNC) to the opposition New Patriotic Party  (NPP) after he lost the parliamentary seat in the 2008 elections was  handed a political blow when 38-year old Julius Ayaaba beat him to the  assembly seat.<br \/>\nBut Mr. Ndebugre has accused the majority leader  of doling out money and other material things to ensure his defeat in  the elections as victory for him would have made him a bigger threat to  Mr. Avoka\u2019s re-election in 2012.<br \/>\nSpeaking to Citi FM in Accra,  Mr. Ndebugre said &#8220;the Majority leader Cletus Avoka came and reinforced  the efforts of the District Chief Executive and they were going all over  the place distributing money, distributing cloth, cutting roads. A  small elections like that with just three polling stations and you are  coming with caterpillars to construct roads and going to families and  distributing cloth and giving them money to go and sew.&#8221;<br \/>\nFurther  explaining what he thought was a demeaning posture by the Majority  Leader and other supporters, Mr. Ndebugre added, &#8220;they were all over the  place. There is an area just beyond my residence and he was not there  himself but the DCE and the Upper East regional representative of the  Council of State who is also a bishop, an Anglican Bishop went with food  [and] drinks\u2026 and the bishop was nearly beaten and he ran for his life\u2026  I am saying it on authority, the bishop had to run for his life.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said people are coming to him with all manner of concerns as the district takes such elections very seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Ndebugre, a former member of parliament of Zebilla who lost in his bid to become an assembly member at the Timonde Electoral Area of the Bawku West District in the Upper East region has blamed Majority Leader in Parliament, Cletus Avoka for his failure to win the seat. 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