'My profession prevented me from exhibiting my party colours' - Oppong Nkrumah

June 15, 2015 12:52 PM

Oppong-Nkrumah polled 219 votes to beat his closest contender, John Obiri-Yeboah who managed 145 votes.

Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah

Ace broadcaseter Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, has revealed that his profession as a journalist prevented him from exhibiting his true party colours.

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He said he has always been a member of the opposition New Patriotic Party.

Oppong-Nkrumah was elected as the parliamentary candidate for the Ofoase-Ayeribi constituency in the NPP parliamentary primaries held on Saturday 13 June, 2015.

He said his profession as a journalist prevented him from exhibiting his true party colours.

“The truth is always one. I have always been NPP. All my family members including my dad and mum are NPP,” Oppong-Nkrumah told Kasapa FM on Monday.

“Once you are assigned a task to perform, you have to do it professionally. So, I did my work professionally whilst at Joy FM.

“But when I resigned and went back to school to complete my law studies, I got home and as a patron of the party at the constituency, I continued with the work that I had been doing,” he said.