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The PNC General Secretary Bernard Monah has said the overwhelming victory of NPP flagbearer aspirant, Nana Akufo-Addo, in the party�s mini congress confirms claims that the former attorney general induced delegates with gifts. Mornah said he is privy to reports that suggest the Akufo-Addo campaign team promised to offer television sets to regional branches of the party that gave him a hundred percent votes in the congress that reduced the number of aspirants from seven to five. �I heard that when they were going for the elections, Nitiwul came to the Upper West with Nana Addo and said that any region that delivered a hundred percent for Nana Addo will be rewarded and I am told the plasma TV was the prize that was offered and so they are happy that something was coming to the region,� he alleged. According to him, the offer influenced delegates of the Upper West region to give a hundred percent vote to the former foreign affairs minister. �What it brings to the fore is that, the Upper West region took up the challenge and delivered a hundred percent. So does that mean that materialism is what characterised this election and is that what our politics has become?� the PNC chief scribe fumed on Accra-based Radio Gold Saturday.