FORMER NDC CHAIRMAN DISMISSES ALLEGATIONS (PAGE 14, MAY 13, 2010)

The immediate past Upper East Regional First Vice Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Richard Adua, has dismissed allegations levelled against him by the youth wing of the Navrongo Central branch of the party that he is the chief architect of all the problems and misfortunes of the party in the constituency.
Mr. Adua has described the allegations against him as preposterous and baseless and dared the youth making those allegations to substantiate them with facts.
“Any individual who wants to achieve his or her personal interest at the expense of the party must desist from that since unity was very paramount to the party in the constituency,” he said adding that “there is the need for all party members to patch up their differences to enable the NDC retain power”
Mr. Adua’s reaction follows a press statement the youth wing of the Navrongo Central branch of the party issued and signed by the Constituency Youth Organiser, Mr. Ajenda Adua, alleging that Mr Richard Adua had incited some party members who contested the Regional Executive Election and lost and were peeved, against the Regional Minister and the Regional Executives.
The youth wing also alleged that Mr Adua was among the people in the party who fuelled the recent allegations levelled against the Regional Minister, Mr Mark Woyongo on the award of contracts to cronies and family members.
Responding to the charges made against him, Mr. Adua indicated that in 2004, he personally contacted Mr. Woyongo to contest the Parliamentary election in the constituency on the ticket of the party to which Mr. Woyongo declined because he was still in office.
According to him, even though Mr Woyongo declined the proposal, he (Mr Woyongo) gave him (Mr Adua) some money to support the campaign activities which he gave to the constituency executive for the exercise and wondered why he would thwart the Minister's efforts and the party as a whole.
He further explained that in the 2008 elections, he was one of the persons who endorsed the Electoral Commission form which Mr Woyongo filed to contest the Parliamentary election for the Navrongo Central Constituency and even took him round to introduce him as the NDC Parliamentary candidate to elders and chiefs in the area.
Mr Adua denied the allegation that he was always dictating to government officials and threatening them and said the youth wing should know that he was the former Regional Vice-Chairman of the party and had never supported any member of the party to vote against Mr Woyongo who failed to win the Navrongo Central seat in 2008 election.
Mr Adua rejected the claims saying he appropriated a land obtained from the Tono Irrigation Project stressing that he had in his pocession documentation to prove that the land in question was duly acquired by him from the Management of the Tono Irrigation Company.