{"id":693797,"date":"2019-08-28T12:11:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T12:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"
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Francis Xavier Sosu <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francis\nXavier Sosu\u2019s account about how much he spent on his bid to be the National\nDemocratic Congress (NDC) candidate for the Madina constituency in the Greater\nAccra Region has thrown mor"},"modified":"2019-08-28T12:11:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T12:11:21","slug":"i-spent-gh%c2%a2300000-on-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/28\/i-spent-gh%c2%a2300000-on-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Spent GH\u00a2300,000 On Campaign\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n

Francis Xavier Sosu <\/strong><\/p>\n

Francis
\nXavier Sosu\u2019s account about how much he spent on his bid to be the National
\nDemocratic Congress (NDC) candidate for the Madina constituency in the Greater
\nAccra Region has thrown more light about how money played a role in the party\u2019s
\npolls.<\/p>\n

He
\nsaid he spent GH\u00a2300,000 for the bid which went into feeding and transportation
\nfor delegates, fuel for campaign travels and miscellaneous expenses.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor
\nnow, I can\u2019t say for a fact but I\u2019m sure it should be somewhere over GH\u00a2300,000.
\nThat is from somewhere July 2018 till now. It may be more, I am yet to
\nreconcile\u2026. Generally, the key elements included posters, branch visitations
\nand most likely you would have to convey them; cost of transportation, feeding,
\ncost of buying fuel for your team and sometimes petty requests coming from
\ndelegates; you take care of medical bills, school bills and so on,\u201d Sosu said.<\/p>\n

Speaking
\non\u00a0Eyewitness News, he
\nstressed that such expenditures cannot be described as vote-buying since they
\ndo not have any direct link with the eventual choice of delegates on the day of
\nvoting.<\/p>\n

Related News<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said his gestures and
\nthe corresponding expenditures could best be described as a show of \u201clove\u201d and
\n\u201ccare\u201d for delegates and constituent he sought to lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI
\nthink it is about showing care, love and concern for the people that you seek
\nto lead. I think vote buying has to do with things that are directly connected
\nwith the elections where you directly give them something to influence the mind
\nof delegates for that purpose,\u201d he told Umaru Sanda Amadu, host of\u00a0Eyewitness News\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n

Sosu
\nwas victorious in Saturday\u2019s Parliamentary primaries, with 662 votes against
\nhis opponents, Sidi Abubakar, Ibrahim Faila Fuseini and Haija Rukaya, who had
\n480, 219 and 16 votes respectively.<\/p>\n

Although
\nthe polls in the Madina Constituency, like other parts of the country, was
\ngenerally peaceful, there were claims of vote-buying in some constituencies,
\nwith the former president and founder of the NDC, Jerry John Rawlings, urging
\ndelegates during the polls not to allow money to influence their choice of
\ncandidates.<\/p>\n

But
\nSosu denied supporting delegates in any way on the day of elections, saying
\nthat his election was purely based on his past gestures in the constituency.<\/p>\n

\u201cI
\nnever, on the day of election, paid, not even \u201cT&T\u201d to any single delegate
\nbut I still won,\u201d he said on\u00a0Eyewitness
\nNews.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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