President Akufo-Addo’s cousin, Gabby Asare Otchere Darko, has given an indirect response to the Patriotic Party’s new standard bearer, Boakye Agyarko.
Gabby described as lies a series of allegations by Boakye Agyarko about him during the renegotiation of the 250-megawatt Ameri power plant when he was energy minister, calling Boakye Agyarko an “energized liar.”
“What aaaaa can you say to an energized liar, struggling with constipation?” Gabby wrote on the social media platform Facebook in response to the allegations this week.
Boakye Agyarko in a viral interview on Kumasi-based Asanteman FM alleged that Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko single-handedly renegotiated the Ameri deal without the consent of the committee set up by the government to work on the deal.
He added that when he confronted Gabby about the matter, he told her to shut up because President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was already aware of the steps he (Gabby) had taken.
Agyarko said he was on a flight to the United States when Gabby called him.
“I told him I was on a travel flight. Then he (Gabby) told me that he was emailing me a document to review. When I arrived safely and went to my hotel room, I opened my email address and saw the document. To my surprise, Gabby, on the blind side of the Committee established and approved by the President to renegotiate with Ameri Energy Group, hired a law firm to engage Ameri Energy Group and completed their negotiation and recommended a certain company to operate Ameri’s power plant and extended the contract to 20 years,” he said.
“I emailed Gabby and asked her what authority she had to do that. And I told him that the Cabinet had given specific instructions to follow and his response was what makes me think that my boss (President Akufo-Addo) does not know what he has done…so I kept quiet,” he added.
The former energy minister said that when he spoke to President Akufo-Addo about the matter, the president asked if there was something wrong with what Gabby did.
Boakye Agyarko said he told the president that “the authority to renegotiate the terms of the Ameri power plant is not in the hands of Gabby and that the proposal made by the firm he hired violated all cabinet instructions and extended the contract to 20 years.”
