Former Member of Parliament for Tarkwa-Nsuaem Constituency, George Mireku Duker, has stated that some leading members of the machinated against him because of his ambition to become president of Ghana someday.
According to a report by 3news.com, the former MP made the allegations during a media engagement on Tuesday, 13 August 2025.
The former Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources alleged that party bigwigs, who saw him as a threat to their own presidential ambitions, made various orchestrations against him to thwart his own ambitions. "The bigwigs in the party in Accra see me as a threat, and so they realised that if I was not brought down, I could become the president of Ghana.
Almost all those with presidential ambition worked against me. "So my issue with the party is not just in the constituency; the issues were national, so that I would not rise because they see the potential in me.