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The defeated Tempane MP Joseph Kpemka says the lies of the opponents led to his defeat in the parliamentary elections.
Speaking on Eyewitness News, he felt that voters in his constituency “fell for the propaganda.”
Mr. Kpemka said it was despite the fact that he lobbied for development projects and employment for them, along with the One-Village-One-Dam project.
“When you go to the employment sector, I can say without the slightest doubt that I did a lot for the young people in the area.”
“The verdict was unanimous [victory for me] until three days until the elections when propaganda of a venal nature, well choreographed, beaten and calculated in such a way that it will be removed and I will not have the opportunity to refute, ”he complained.
By way of example, he said that there were complaints that the Electoral Commission favored him by manipulating the polling stations before the polls.
These things distracted from the development discourse, Kpemka said.
“You have a situation where people don’t talk about the development you’ve started. They do not criticize that … someone is going to talk about chiefdom issues and says that a certain chief in this area is being projected above other chiefs and it is because that other chief is related to me or related to the PNP, “he added.
On a lighter note, the Assistant Attorney General described his defeat as an “electric shock.”
According to him, it was not long before he realized that the polls would go wrong for him.
“I came to know that I wasn’t going to win when I heard the results of two polling stations out of 99 and admitted defeat.”
“My projection was that I was going to win those polling stations by 80 percent and when they entered, I won them by only 50 percent,” he recalled.
Mr. Kpemka lost to the parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Lydia Akanvariba Lamisi.
She obtained 16,462 votes against 20,939 votes obtained by Ms. Lydia.
— citinewsroom
