Ambassador Mike Oquaye Jr., the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Dome-Kwabenya, has flatly refuted claims that he washed a constituent’s underpants.
There was conjecture that he was washing underpants when a video of him helping a woman with her laundry from his door-to-door campaign went viral. Now, a lot of people have seen this video.
Social media users are debating the lengths to which politicians would go in order to get votes in response to the occurrence.
On Thursday, April 18, 2024, Ambassador Mike Oquaye Jr. addressed his detractors on Facebook. He said that he will follow the lead of the late former president Jerry John Rawlings and the Ablekuma South Member of Parliament, Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, in order to garner support for himself in the 2024 elections.
He made it clear that, during his visit, he had cleaned a female constituent’s son’s slacks and shorts—not women’s underwear. He called the charges made by his opponents to be “lies.”
He emphasized that he will keep interacting with people by doing things like playing games, pounding fufu, cleaning clothing, and even plaiting hair.
In order to get votes, Ambassador Oquaye Jr. stated that he wanted to build relationships with his constituents.
What he wrote:
“I will wash jeans shorts with my people for votes, I will pound fufu for votes, -JJ Rawlings did it. I will plait hair or even do banku on fire for votes – Oko Vanderpuije did it.
“What is your propaganda and lies that I washed so and so which is a blatant lie and a complete fabrication? Why did you not say what I really did, chatting with and washing jeans shorts with a constituent. Was it because it would have been a useless story or because you wanted to lie and create fake sensational news?”
I want the people to know that I am a regular person.”
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