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Akufo-Addo: Bugri Naabu will return Mahama's alleged bribe

The NPP on Thursday 29 November 2016 alleged that President Mahama and his brother Ibrahim Mahama tried bribing Mr Nabu to “tarnish Nana Addo as anti-Northern.”

“He himself has decided what he is going to do with it, that he will return the money, Akufo-Addo said in a radio broadcast Friday. "That is my understanding; that is what he has told me. That he is going to return the money."

He added: "He kept the money for proof; but now that the matter has come out he intends to return the money.  He told me the story about this matter before it became public."

Akufo-Addo also added that government has not been able to give solid denial of the bribery allegation.

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Sheik Mustapha Hamid, the spokesperson of Nana Addo said the incident happened on Friday, October 28 when the NDC led by Ibrahim Mahama called the NPP northern Regional chairman, Bugri Naabu for a meeting.

He said the meeting took place in the house of Ibrahim Mahama, after 9 pm that Friday and in the meeting was Bugri Naabu, the president and his brother.

He alleged that Ibrahim Mahama offered Bugri an amount of 500,000 Ghana cedis and a V8 vehicle to ensure that Nana Addo is tagged as anti-Northern.

Meanwhile, the president's spokesman Edward Omane Boamah has described the allegation as "concoction" which does not need further media coverage.

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He  said at no point did the president meet the NPP northern regional chairman, Bugri Nabu, to bribe him to defect from the party.

"I will not sustain the NPP and Mr Bugri Nabu's concoction," he said on Joy FM's Super Morning Show Friday.

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