Hopeson Adley is a key member of Alan Kyerematen’s change movement
Hopeson Adrie, a key member of Alain Kyerematen’s Movement for Change, has revealed details of an operation he led to prevent alleged Togolese citizens from voting in the 2016 general election.
On May 16, 2024, Mr. Hopeson Adrie said in an interview with Onua TV that all operations he directed involving the use of explosives occurred within Togo’s borders, not in Ghana.
He said he had formed a team and taken them to Togo to engage with traditional authorities in communities bordering Ghana and to encourage them to speak to their citizens and not cross the border to vote in the 2016 elections.
“In the Volta Region, we have a problem with Togolese people coming to register to vote during the elections. I decided to disable the system to prevent it from happening.
“I selected a team and had them take an oath not to tell regional executives what we were going to do,” he said on Twitter.
Further, “We have relatives who grew up there (Togo) and he had good relations with the traditional authorities there. So he moved us from one authority to another. When we met them, we gave them a large sum of money (CFA) to use for advocacy, radio announcements, etc. .”
Adoriye, a former New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate, also suggested that another part of his strategy was to create a situation where Togolese would be afraid to cross the border to vote during the 2016 elections, which is where the explosion happened.
He said he told Togolese there would be trouble if they tried to cross the border to vote, and that the explosion and the ensuing commotion were used for that purpose.
He insisted that everything, including the explosion, took place in Togo and not in the Volta region, as some have claimed.
“I told them not to come because things were going to happen…We told them and things were sorted out. Everything that happened happened in Togo. It happened in the Volta region. Those who say, if you throw this (dynamite) at a polling station, won’t people die? Who in the Volta region can say there was an explosion in their area?
“And I gated people in. After it (the explosion) I let them leave on their bikes. There was a commotion and people started saying what we talked about was starting to come true. It was a strategy. It all happened in Togo,” he reiterated.
He added that Ghana’s security agencies, including the Inspector General of Police, cannot invite Mr. Ghana to explain what happened as it happened outside of Ghana’s jurisdiction.
He also accused the NPP of not rewarding himself and those he mobilized for the operation.
Veteran journalist Kwame Sefa Kaye calls for security to arrest and investigate Hopeson Adly, who claimed the ruling New Patriotic Party used dynamite to intimidate voters in the Volta Region during the 2016 general elections. I am reminded of my request to the authorities.
Watch what he had to say in the video below (starting at 7:00).
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