Apologise for defamatory remarks or else…Kwabena Agyepong to Wontumi
The suspended General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, has given the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Party , Mr Bernard Antwi Bosiako, up to Friday, November 3, 2017 to apologise and retract certain comments he made about him.
On October 28, 2017, Mr Bosiako, aka Chairman Wontumi, was said to have stated on Nhyira FM, a Kumasi based radio station, that the suspended General Secretary was a traitor and should never be reinstated.
The NPP Ashanti regional chairman was also said to have made similar comments on Neat FM, an Accra based radio station.
“Kwabena Agyepong, when he was General Secretary, stooped so low by collecting a plush car from Ibrahim Mahama with the motive of working against the NPP so that the NDC would win the 2016 elections on a silver platter,’’ Chairman Wontumi was reported to have said.
“Defamatory”
In a letter to Mr Bosiako, lawyers for Mr Agyepong, have described the said comments as defamatory and slanderous which had “injured the hard earned reputation of our client as a politician in Ghana.
“Our client in unequivocal terms has denied ever betraying the NPP or ever having any compromising association with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) or anyone associated with it,’’ the letter said.
The said comments, the letter, added had exposed Mr Agyepong to “ridicule, distrust and contempt, by all and sundry especially the members of the NPP who respect and even voted for him.’’
Mr Agyepong is, therefore, demanding Chairman Wontumi to cease or desist from ever making “slanderous and false statements and unnecessary inciting of the general public and for that matter, members of the NPP against him.
“We further demand that you through the same media you used to publish the mentioned defamatory statements, retract and apologise for the defamatory and unsavory remarks on our client on both Nhyira and Neat FM by Friday, November 3, 2017.
“We further demand a formal letter apologising to our client and your very tacit assurance that never again will you ever conduct yourself in such an unfortunate manner,’’ Mr Agyepong’s lawyers stated in the letter.