‘IT’S TOO LATE IN THE DAY’ – BOAKYE YIADOM DOWNPLAYS IMPACT OF ALLEGED BRIBERY TAPE

Political Analyst Boakye Yiadom has said a videotape which the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) claims is evidence of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo accepting a bribe will not hurt the President in the upcoming elections.

Speaking to Nana Ampratwum on Silver fm Omanbapa morning show, he stated that, the timing of the release of the video is too close to the elections on December 7 and would likely make an insignificant dent in the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP)'s campaign to retain power.

“It is too late in the day. Chances are that it was released too late. Definitely, some people will believe it, but the NPP is also fighting back so the effect will be insignificant,” he said.

He made this comment in reaction to NDC’s allegation that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo took a bribe of $40,000 in the early days of his Presidency.

The President allegedly took the bribe to retain an appointee of former President John Dramani Mahama in office despite calls to get him removed.

The NDC backs the allegations with a video it says was made by an investigative journalist.

The governing NPP and the government communication machinery have discredited the video as fake.