{"id":274994,"date":"2011-01-28T08:28:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T08:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=49794"},"modified":"2011-01-28T08:28:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T08:28:23","slug":"i-will-step-down-for-pat-kofi-jumah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/28\/i-will-step-down-for-pat-kofi-jumah\/","title":{"rendered":"I Will Step Down For Pat&#8230; &#8211; Kofi Jumah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-49795\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/28\/i-will-step-down-for-pat-kofi-jumah\/kofi_jumah_pat\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49795\" title=\"kofi_jumah_pat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/kofi_jumah_pat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member  of Parliament (MP) for Asokwa, Mr. Maxwell Kofi Jumah, has said that if  ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor asked him to step down for Ms. Patricia  Appiagyei in the NPP parliamentary primary in Asokwa, he would do so.<br \/>\nMr.  Jumah, a former Mayor of Kumasi, was reacting to the front page story  of last Wednesday&#8217;s Daily Dispatch &#8211; &#8220;JAK TO ASK JUMAH TO STEP DOWN FOR  PAT?&#8221;<br \/>\nSpeaking on a radio station in Kumasi, Angel FM, Mr. Jumah  said, &#8220;I am prepared to step down if ex-President Kufuor advised me to  do so because I respect him (Kufuor) a lot. However, he has not yet  asked me to do so.&#8221;<br \/>\nIt will be recalled that Mr. Jumah had  alleged that Ms. Appiagyei, who succeeded him as the Mayor of Kumasi,  used sexual favours to enable her be appointed to that position. This  was when Ms. Appiagyei was reported to be getting ready to face Mr.  Jumah in the NPP&#8217;s primary in Asokwa.<br \/>\nThere had also been  credible reports that ex-President Kufuor had been angered by Mr.  Jumah&#8217;s allegation since he appointed Ms. Appiagyei as Mayor of Kumasi.<br \/>\nLast  Wednesday&#8217;s issue of the Daily Dispatch had said that there were  credible indications that Mr. Jumah would be asked to step down from  contesting the primary in Asokwa by Mr. Kufuor.<br \/>\nThis, it had been  suggested, would be seen as an act of penance towards Ms. Appiagyei.  Mr. Jumah, commenting on Angel FM said it was not true that ex-President  Kufuor had met him at any meeting and asked him to step down.<br \/>\nThe  Asokwa MP told Angle FM, &#8220;we are all in this country. If ex-President  Kufuor wants to speak, he does so through Frank Agyekum and not the  Daily Dispatch or any other newspaper.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn a reaction, the Editor  of the Daily Dispatch, Ben Ephson said: &#8220;I believe that Ghanaians would  not expect ex-President Kufuor to announce publicly that he (Kufuor)  had asked Jumah to step down for Ms. Appiagyei.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn another  development, Mr. Jumah, speaking on another Kumasi radio station, Fox  FM, has asked the NPP national executives to increase the parliamentary  nomination fees because the present level of GH\u00a216,000 was on the low  side.<br \/>\nSource: Daily Dispatch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Asokwa, Mr. Maxwell Kofi Jumah, has said that if ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor asked him to step down for Ms. Patricia Appiagyei in the NPP parliamentary primary in Asokwa, he would do so. 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