“When did AWA become a private jet?” asks Ursula

The Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has debunked media reports suggesting she used a private jet during a recent trip to the Northern regional capital, Tamale, to campaign for the New Patriotic Party.

The MP for Ablekuma West described the reports as a desperate attempt to falsify information and divert attention.

In a Facebook post, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful said she took an Africa World Airlines flight to Tamale, contrary to lies spread by detractors in the media.

The reports said she and two other people had been seen flying out of Kotoka Airport in Accra, en route to the Upper East and Upper West Regions, on a mid-sized Challenger CL 604 private jet operated by a crew of two.

Progress and prosperity tip balance

“I didn’t know Africa World Airlines is now a private jet!!!” she wrote. “I flew to Tamale on 28 September, last week Monday, en route to the Upper East Region for a campaign tour primarily to assist the female candidates in Navrongo and Bawku. I also went to Garu, Tempane, Pusiga, Zebilla, Binduri and Bolgatanga.

“Here is my boarding pass and I actually changed seats and sat in 4D. Some people have developed a penchant for lying through their teeth.”

Comparing the performance of the NPP to the National Democratic Congress, the minister said that Ghanaians can now make a distinction between which of the parties has shortchanged the electorate.

“After 28 years of voting for the NDC, the lovely people of this incredibly beautiful part of Ghana have very little to show for it. They are determined to vote for the NPP for development, progress and prosperity, having seen what three and a half years of focused, dedicated and visionary leadership of Nana Akufo-Addo has done to transform every aspect of our lives,” she wrote.

NPP fired up

“This feeble attempt to change this fact through half-truths, lies and innuendos will fail. I met people who have decided to vote NPP for the first time because of the impact our Planting for Food and Jobs has had on their livelihoods. Others are voting for Free SHS.”

Ursula was hopeful that the NPP’s track record over the past three and a half years will help Rex Asanga, the NPP MP aspirant for Bolgatanga Central, unseat the incumbent NDC MP, Isaac Adongo.

“The Pwalugu Dam is a major hit with them. The Bolga-Bawku road construction is ongoing, and they can see Bawku-Polimakom road construction with their own eyes!!!!! NPP’s footprint is in every home.

“We were welcomed with open arms for the first time ever in Natugnia and other NDC strongholds in Navrongo Central. Binduri, Pusiga, Garu will fall this time and vote massively for NPP. Hawa Yakubu’s seat will once more be occupied by an NPP woman, Gabiana [Gbanwaa], inshallah!!

“The women of Bolgatanga Central are fired up to sweep Adongo away. I walked the streets and alleyways with them and felt their passion and zeal,” the minister said.

Fred Dzakpata

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