A former Ashanti regional Minister in the erstwhile late Jerry John Rawlings’ administration and former Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States, Daniel Ohene Agyekum, has described as frivolous claims that the current Ashanti regional Chairman of the opposition NDC, Andrew Augustus Nana Akwasi squandered party funds or took money from the ruling NPP during the 2020 general elections.

Commenting on the leaked Fact-finding Committee report on a local radio station, Ambassador Agyekum said, "nowhere in the report affirmed or concluded that, indeed the regional Chairman of our party sold our votes or squandered monies allocated for the general elections."

“None of the accusers was able to provide concrete evidence. There were 17 witnesses who appeared before the committee, and I tell you no one was able to prove that he (Nana Akwasi) took money from the NPP or squandered party money during the elections,” he said.

The NDC secured over 600,000 votes in the Ashanti region in the 2020 general elections, bettering the 2016 performance of 400,000 votes.