The Technical Advisor at the Office of the Vice President has refuted claims made by Alan Kyerematen that the New Patriotic Party used intimidation tactics to garner support for Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia during the party's Super Delegates Conference.

According to Dr Tiah Abdul-Kabiru Mahama, Mr Kyerematen’s claim that government appointees are supporting a particular candidate out of fear for their jobs, lacks merit.

Speaking to JoyNews on Wednesday, September 6, Dr Mahama asserted that if anyone had reason to complain about intimidation, it should be Dr. Bawumia.

“In 2007, when majority of government appointees were supporting Mr Alan Kyerematen, he still cited intimidation so for me if there’s any person who has had intimidations either direct or indirect, it’s the vice president who should be complaining,” he said.

His comment follows Mr Kyerematen's statement on Tuesday, September 5, announcing his withdrawal from the party's flagbearer race in which he classified a number of incidents he said occasioned the party’s Super Delegates Conference.

The NPP flagbearer aspirant said that "After having carefully analysed the results of the said elections, it is absolutely clear to me from events leading to, during and after the elections, that the Special Delegates Conference was strategically and tactically skewed in favour of one particular aspirant.”

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The statement further said that pronouncements by some leading members of the party "both before and after the elections, also lend weight" to his observations.

"The level of intimidation of varying intensity, directly and indirectly, unleashed on a significant number of Delegates at various Voting Centers across the sixteen regions, is unprecedented in the history of our Party," Mr Kyerematen said.

On the back of this, Dr Mahama labelled the former Trade and Industry Minister's allegation as baseless and lacking factual support based on the election process.

“So to suggest that any activist or supporter of any of the candidates has been intimidated will be untrue. There were several Members of Parliament who supported other candidates, especially Mr Alan Kyerematen and nothing happened to them.”

“There were cabinet ministers of state who supported Mr Alan Kyerematen and nothing happened to them. There were CEOs who supported him and nothing happened to them, so to say that you have been threatened or your supporter has been threatened is to tell a lie and we must be bold enough to call out some of these things,” he said.

He urged Mr Kyerematen to take responsibility and refrain from making complaints about intimidation during the NPP Super Delegates election.