Former MCE for Suhum, Margaret Darko, has warned that Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) are ready to expose Irene Naa Torshie Addo over how she allegedly treated them during her tenure as Administrator of the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF).
Speaking on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem morning show, Madam Darko said:
“I want her to know that we, the MMDCEs, are ready to expose her because of how she treated us.”
She urged the New Patriotic Party (NPP) not to give attention to what she described as Naa Torshie’s rants aimed at tarnishing the image of some party leaders.
“Whatever Naa Torshie is claiming to dirty some party leaders, I am urging the NPP not to pay attention to her rants. We must vote for Dr Bawumia in the 2026 flagbearership contest,” she stated.
Madam Darko further encouraged party members to reflect on the achievements of the NPP while in government.
“The NPP should remember the good things we did while in power and vote for the party to return and save the country again,” she added.
She explained that despite receiving very limited funds at the municipal level, she still tried her best to serve her people.
“In the municipality, the small money we got from the Common Fund, we tried to use it to do something meaningful for the assemblies,” she said.
Madam Darko maintained that Naa Torshie should stop blaming Dr Mahamudu Bawumia for the challenges that occurred under the DACF.
“I want to tell Naa Torshie that she should stop blaming Bawumia. When she was buying fertilizer, when she awarded ten-seater toilet projects in Accra, and all the other things she did, she used her own means to award those contracts,” she argued.
She stressed that she would not publicly disgrace the party like she claims Naa Torshie is doing.
“She should think about what I have said. I will not wash NPP linen in public the way she is washing her dirty linen out there,” she said.
Madam Darko also alleged unfair distribution of the Common Fund under Naa Torshie’s leadership.
“Every assembly is supposed to get about GHS 4 million, but she gave some assemblies GHS 1.2 million and others GHS 220,000. That alone shows she had her own interests,” she claimed.
Her comments follow the Former Administrator of the Common Fund, Irene Naa Torshie Addo, dismissing allegations that she contributed to the NPP’s defeat in the 2024 general elections.
Speaking to the media earlier, Naa Torshie said it was unfair for party members to accuse her of withholding funds from MMDCEs. She insisted that the responsibility for releasing the money did not lie with her.
“The President, Nana Akufo-Addo, and Bawumia refused to release the Common Funds to me. Every fund approved by Parliament was disbursed according to the laid-down formula,” she said.
Naa Torshie further argued that the NPP’s claim of “we have the men” was misleading, adding that Dr Bawumia, as Chair of the Economic Management Team (EMT), directed how the fund formula should be applied.
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