Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea has admitted the embattled self-styled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome donated some money to the NPP when they were in power. Nana Akomea told Kojo Oppong Nkrumah on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show “I have heard people say he (Woyome) donated money to the NPP – yes he did.” He went on to explain that Woyome approached the then Chief of Staff at the Presidency under President John Agyekum Kufuor, Mr. Kojo Mpiani and offered to donate money to the NPP. Nana Akomea said the Chief of Staff referred Woyome to him (Akomea) and he took Woyome to the treasurer of the party where he made his donation and was given a receipt. Nana Akomea however failed to disclose the amount Woyome donated to the NPP, but said he saw nothing wrong with taking a donation from someone who offered it to a political party that needs money to work. “If any man walks to us and offers to donate money to the party we will take it and give the person a receipt to acknowledge receipt, and that was what happened in the Woyome case,” he said. He conceded that with the benefit of hind sight, it would have probably been wiser for the party to have checked the background of Woyome before taking his money. Nana Akomea said if not because of what has been revealed today about Woyome’s wealth, the NPP would have accepted donation from him again if he offered it today. Some NDC spokespersons have suggested that there is evidence to show Woyome had connections with the NPP and not only the NDC. Communications Director at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho has said even though Woyome claims to be a financier of the NDC, the party's executive have to confirmed that, adding that there is evidence Woyome has connections with the NPP too. "The man is a business man who gets involved with political parties when it suits him," he said. But Nana Akomea said those suggestions are the most laughable and comical aspects of the Woyome scandal. He argued that Woyome is not a card bearing member of the NPP, and neither is he a spokesperson of the NPP nor a member of any regional executive of the NPP. “But Woyome goes round from radio station to radio station speaking for the NDC – goes round from constituency to constituency raising the hands of candidates who won NDC parliamentary primaries,” he said. Indeed, Woyome himself admitted at his press conference he is a social democrat, supported the revolutionary forces and he actually resigned from his diplomatic job specifically to support President John Evans Ata Mills because he and the president have something in common. Nana Akomea also argued that there are documents to show that apart from the GHC400,000 that the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) reported as having been paid from Woyome’s account to the wife of a Chief State Attorney, there are records to show Woyome paid GHC30 million to the NDC from the same account. He however asked for time to produce that evidence, which are arguably the same set of supposed evidence that NPP bankroller, Kennedy Akom Preko Agyapong claim to have but holding to his chest. Nana Akomea questioned why the EOCO only reported the GHC400,000 paid to Gifty Nerkwei-Tetteh, wife of Chief State Attorney Samuel Nerkwei-Tetteh, when there is a bigger amount paid from the same account to the NDC and other amount paid to other state organisation. “We have also heard them (NDC) say that Woyome bought a car for our General Secretary (Sir John), that is so but that was payment for legal services our General Secretary provided for Woyome – he (Sir John) worked for him (Woyome) and he paid him in kind,” Akomea said. Meanwhile Woyome stated during his press conference that Sir John got sacked from the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) because of his (Sir John’s) involvement with him (Woyome), adding that Sir John was one of the most honest persons in the NPP who stood against the treatment the NPP gave to him (Woyome). Woyome also lauded former Education Minister under President Kufuor, Yaw Osafo Maafo for warning the NPP government against getting him off the stadia contract but the NPP failed to heed Osafo Maafo’s advice. “For those of you who did not know the real reasons why Sir John and Osafo Maafo were sacked by the NPP government, those were the actual reasons, not the flimsy excuses the NPP government gave at the time,” Woyome said.