{"id":140958,"date":"2024-01-19T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/19\/afriyie-ankrah-admits-blood-oath-swearing\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T10:52:10","slug":"afriyie-ankrah-admits-blood-oath-swearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/19\/afriyie-ankrah-admits-blood-oath-swearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Afriyie Ankrah Admits Blood Oath Swearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><em>Elvis Afriyie Ankrah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former NDC Director of Elections, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, has stated that he devolved into the hubris of occultism to prove he carries out his work with utmost integrity in the interest of his party.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the blood oath to the party was arranged at his own request prior to the 2020 general election while he was the NDC\u2019s Director of Elections.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to media reports and a viral\u00a0social media video of him taking the blood oath with a sword in hand, the former Sports Minister stated that the incident has nothing to do with this year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>Afriyie Ankrah indicated in a statement issued yesterday that, \u201cFor the records, the said ceremony was arranged at my own behest ahead of the general elections of 2020 when I was the Director of Elections of our party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is yet another example of how I took my role and how committed I was to ensure that we did our work with utmost integrity in the interest of our party and its members and supporters,\u201d he justified.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the oath was taken only by him and had nothing to do with the party\u2019s national executives or NDC officials in charge of the party\u2019s preparation and administration of the upcoming 2024 general election.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC\u2019s top brass, led by former Director of Elections, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, swore that if they sell out the party for money in the upcoming elections, they will die with their firstborns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I compromise and sell my party out for money for this coming election, may I die and my firstborn also die in my place (sic),\u201d Afriyie Ankrah and his cohorts swore.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone in the video took turns swearing the blood oath in a shrine-like setting. A man, who appears to be a cult grand master, dressed in white and carrying a cross around his neck, swore them to the blood.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, the man placed a piece of fabric on the bare floor, asked for oil, and ordered that the NDC gurus step on it without their shoes while swearing the oath with a sword, which is like the mythical Excalibur sword borne by King Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>Though Afriyie Ankrah urged NDC members and the general public to dismiss the video and assist the NDC in winning this year\u2019s elections, there have been varied views on social media about what the party will do given the high stakes ahead of the December 7 polls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Ebenezer K. Amponsah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elvis Afriyie Ankrah \u00a0 Former NDC Director of Elections, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, has stated that he devolved into the hubris of occultism to prove he carries out his work with utmost integrity in the interest of his party. According to him, the blood oath to the party was arranged at his own request prior to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Afriyie Ankrah Admits Blood Oath Swearing - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/19\/afriyie-ankrah-admits-blood-oath-swearing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Afriyie Ankrah Admits Blood Oath Swearing - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Elvis Afriyie Ankrah \u00a0 Former NDC Director of Elections, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, has stated that he devolved into the hubris of occultism to prove he carries out his work with utmost integrity in the interest of his party. 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