A founding member of the United Party which gave birth to the New Patriotic Party, Joshua Attoh Quarshie was made to pay a price for opposing the candidature of the party’s candidate who eventually won the 2016 presidential election.
Mr. Attoh Quarshie, in the run-up to the December 7 elections, exhibited his dislike for the president-elect Nana Akufo-Addo and openly campaigned against him.
Exactly three days after Mr. Akufo-Addo was declared winner of the election, a group of NPP supporters were allegedly organized by the party’s defeated parliamentary candidate for Ablekuma South, Jerry Ahmed Saib, and headed for Attoh Quarshie’s house.
Hundreds of supporters, who trooped to his residence at Chorkor Lantey Maame, cast aspersions and hooted at him and his household.
Reports suggest that the mission of Ahmed was to inform him [Mr. Attoh Quarshie] that the flagbearer of the NPP has won the election and therefore he ought to be hooted at for his unwavering stance against Akufo-Addo.
Fortunately, the Jerry Ahmed team met only few women who are at Mr. Attoh Quarshie’s residence while he himself was asleep at the time the group stormed there. “The boys hooted at the NPP elder until they were satisfied and left the residence,” an eyewitness told Onua FM.
This did not go down well with the female occupants of the house who also informed Mr. Attoh Quarshie’s men but by the time they got to the house, Jerry Ahmed and his boys had left.
Speaking in an interview with Onua News, Mr. Attoh Quarshie explained that he only woke-up around 11am on Sunday to the news of what had transpired.
He added that he did not see them but those who were awake at the time explained the mob were huge and if his boys had also been in the house, something else would have happened.
Onua News’ attempts to reach Mr. Ahmed proved futile as his mobile phones were off at the time of filling this story.
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