By Presidential aspirant and leader of the Movement for Change, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, visited team member Hopeson Adorye at the Ministries Police Station in Accra following his arrest on Wednesday, May 22.
The outspoken member of the Movement for Change was detained following his self-confession that he detonated dynamite in the Volta Region during the 2016 elections to give the NPP an undue advantage.
Mr. Adorye, who has since left the NPP to support Mr. Kyerematen, is currently in police custody, assisting the Ghana Police Service with its investigations.
Mr. Kyerematen was accompanied on his visit by Boniface Abubakari Saddique, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, Kofi Kapito, Alhaji Haruna Tafsiru Warlord, Ken Kuranchie, and other members of the Movement for Change.
Former Adentan MP Yaw Buaben Asamoa, who also parted ways with the NPP and joined the Movement for Change, stated that the arrest is politically motivated.
After the visit, Buaben Asamoa asserted that the allegations against Hopeson Adorye are false and unfair.
“Hopeson Adorye is not about to run away from Ghana or his home because the police intend to charge him with the publication of false information. So to go to the extent of keeping him all day in the police station and bringing him over to the Ministries to detain him, you point fingers backwards at yourself that there is something political at play and it is not fair,” he said.
Hopeson Adorye was detained after his appearance on Accra FM on May 10, during which he confessed to participating in a plot to detonate dynamite in the Volta Region to scare voters in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) stronghold, thereby benefiting the NPP.
“Prior to the elections, we blasted dynamite in parts of the Volta Region, and that scared a number of people. When I finished casting my ballot in Tema, I drove to the Volta Region, and when I asked for the number of people who had voted and the expected number of voters, it turned out people did not come out to vote.”
