{"id":1061080,"date":"2022-04-19T19:09:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T19:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/19\/why-allotey-jacobs-rejected-duffour-to-support-bawumia-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T19:09:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T19:09:07","slug":"why-allotey-jacobs-rejected-duffour-to-support-bawumia-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/19\/why-allotey-jacobs-rejected-duffour-to-support-bawumia-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Allotey Jacobs Rejected Duffour To Support Bawumia | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs\u2019 public affection for the Nana Addo-led government is believed to have compelled his mother party (the NDC) to sever ties with him and a warning to never hold himself out as its spokesperson again.<\/p>\n<p>Thus he christened himself, social commentator.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The punitive measure notwithstanding, it appears his affinity to the NPP, especially the Vice-President, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia, has not dampened in any way, as on\u00a0several occasions, his comments are so in sync with government explanation of critical issues that it even turned heads.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Not too long ago, the\u00a0 made a shocking revelation of his intention to support the presidential bid of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>Allotey Jacobs to join NPP?<\/strong><br \/>\u00a0<br \/>His intent has raised questions as to whether he will soon pick up a party card from the NPP\u2019s headquarters.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>But, Allotey Jacobs says he has no plans to \u2018fully\u2019 join the \u2018Elephant party\u2019.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cI\u2019m not NPP and NPP members should never think I\u2019d join the party. I belong to the CPP. I\u2019m an Nkrumahist in NDC,&#8221; he disclosed on <strong>Peace FM\u2019<\/strong>s flagship morning show, <strong>Krokokoo<\/strong>.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>Meeting with Dr Kwabena Duffour<\/strong><br \/>\u00a0<br \/>However, the \u2018Educated fisherman\u2019 as affectionately called, has rejected overtures from former Finance Minister, Dr Kwabena Duffour to join his team for the 2024 elections.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Alluding to his meeting with Dr Kwabena Duffour on the prospect of him joining his team and the NDC, he bluntly expressed his disinterest.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>Why?<\/strong><br \/>\u00a0<br \/>According to him, his decision to join Bawumia campaign to \u2018Break The 8\u2019 for the NPP is unchangeable and \u2018strategic\u2019 \u2013 hence, the reason he turned down the proposal from Dr Kwabena Duffour<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cPolitics is business,\u201d said on PEACE FM\u2019s morning show<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"S8KgHmyyJMw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr Kwabena Dufour Invited Koku Anyidoho &amp; I To His Office - Allotey Jacobs Discloses\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S8KgHmyyJMw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo\/peacefmonline.com\/ghana<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of . Please report any inappropriate  to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs\u2019 public affection for the Nana Addo-led government is believed to have compelled his mother party (the NDC) to sever ties with him and a warning to never hold himself out as its spokesperson again. Thus he christened himself, social commentator.\u00a0The punitive measure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[8626,2032,3572,8627,1753,8628,115],"class_list":["post-1061080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics","tag-allotey","tag-bawumia","tag-duffour","tag-jacobs","tag-politics","tag-rejected","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}