Eugene Boakye Antwi, the former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Subin, has said there was a serious fight between Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko and the party’s 2024 vice-presidential candidate, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh (NAPO).
According to Eugene Boakye Antwi, the fight was on an NPP platform regarding comments made by Gabby Otchere Darko about NPP MPs in the Ashanti Region, claiming they wanted “communal roads and not flyovers.
Speaking on Nhyira FM, Eugene Boakye Antwi stated, “Look, where we have gotten to, they have to shut up. Here they have taken the party to; they should leave it for us to fix. They should keep quiet. They are annoying people with the kind of things they are saying”.
He added, “Yesterday, there was a serious fight between him and NAPO on the platform. It looks as if we don’t know what we are doing”.
Eugene Boakye Antwi, further alleged that former finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta told them in a caucus meeting in parliament that elections are not won win roads.
He further added, “When it gets to a point, NPP members want to put themselves in trouble. If you say this, and someone else goes to explain. You people have been bringing up the issues. I was an MP. What he is saying, I know he is not being truthful.
If you want the truth, the NPP members listened to me when we had a caucus meeting in parliament, when Ken Ofori-Atta came, he looked into our faces, the MPs and told us that we don’t use roads to win elections”.
He added, “You can call any MP who was in the room. We went to a caucus meeting, all the MPs in Ghana met in the parliament house. He told us we don’t use roads to win elections.
They should let sleeping dogs sleep. When some of us hear these things when you speak and you are not being truthful, we will come and explain it”.
Eugene Boakye Antwi’s comments come following New Patriotic Party (NPP) stalwart Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, following his recent comment regarding some NPP Ashanti Region MPs.
It will be recalled that Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has said the former Akufo-Addo government did not snub the Ashanti region.
According to Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, Members of Parliament in the Ashanti Region demanded that their community roads be fixed instead of providing them with flyovers.
He revealed he was shocked that an Ashanti region MP apologised to the people for neglecting them because the NPP government had not constructed flyovers.
Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, while addressing NPP party faithful, said, “I heard somebody saying in the Ashanti Region that we let Ashantis down because we didn’t fix their roads. NPP let Ashantis down because they didn’t have flyovers. But I had been in meetings where MPs from the Ashanti region had said that they did not need flyovers, but they want their community roads done, and in politics, you are supposed to give people what they say they want, not what you think they want.
They wanted their community roads, and when you look at the number of roads that were done in Ashanti per capita across the country, you can’t say NPP let Ashanti Region down. Yet an NPP person was apologising for disappointing the Ashantis for neglecting the Ashanti region”.
He continued, “Now if you want to win in 2028, and this is your attitude, that you have accepted that you did not do well. There is a difference between humility and knocking yourselves down. You can show humility. Maybe you expected more from us, and we are sorry that we couldn’t deliver all that you expected.
How is 2028 going to be your best chance? How can you go and convince Ghanaians that I’ve failed you, but bring me back to power? You must be bolder in defending what you did, you must be humble in accepting where you fell short, and you must have the confidence to say that in spite of this and that I can tell you that I have built more roads than any government that has spent the number of times that I have spent in office”.
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“Ken Ofori Atta told us at a caucus meeting in parliament that we don’t use roads to win elections”
— SIKAOFFICIAL🦍 (@SIKAOFFICIAL1) October 8, 2025
-Hon. Eugene Boakye Antwi, the former MP for Subin, has refuted claims made by Gabby Otchere-Darko regarding Ashanti region MPs and their road choices.
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