I’m not part of anybody’s campaign team

Ghanaian diplomat and politician, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has released a statement indicating that he is not a member of anybody’s campaign team.

According to him, the front-page headline of the Herald newspaper with his photo purporting that he is part of a campaign team is false and misleading.

A statement he released on his social media page on Monday, April 11, 2022, says:

“The Frontpage Headline in the Herald with my photo is False info, deliberately posted to mislead and but therefore worthy of clarification.

I am NOT part of ANYBODY’s campaign team of strategists as alleged.

After all, I have my own ideas and leadership records and potential. This has been self-evident within the NDC for at least 16 years. I just saw fit to give a worthy brother some assistance at a Constituency program.
I have no idea of any other agenda except what was publicly declared at Ashaiman last week in front of mostly Constituency executives and ordinary party members who need a lot of hope.

What I attended at Ashaiman was not a Campaign Launch, but the Launch of a Program to assist Constituencies, and to encourage entrepreneurship in NDC. Dr Duffour deserves credit for his ideas and proposed contributions. Those who have even better ideas should all be encouraged as well.

The Party has not invited anyone interested in any National or Regional, Constituency or Branch offices to come forward and pick forms.

Any suggestions that I belong to anyone’s campaign team is fanciful and untrue. I am very busy with three international assignments, hence my low level of visibility in NDC affairs.“

Spio-Garbrah has been Minister of Education, Minister of Communications, Minister for Mines and Energy and Minister for Trade and Industry in Ghana.

For eight years he was the CEO of the London-based Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, where he championed the role of ICTs, especially in e-education, e-commerce, e-governance, e-health and e-agriculture.

Earlier, he had been the first Chairman of Ghana’s National Communications Authority, the ICT regulator, and also first Chairman of the Valued Added Tax Service Board, a revenue agency.

He was a member of the UNESCO Governing Council, Chairman of Ghana’s National Commission on UNESCO, and President of Dominion University.

He served as a Corporate Relations Officer at the International Finance Corporation and became Head of Communications at the African Development Bank. Subsequently, he was appointed Ambassador of Ghana to the United States.