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John Dumelo commended actress Yvonne Nelson for her friendship and for rejecting the calls from specific individuals within the Akufo-Addo-led government to challenge him for the Ayawaso West Wuogon parliamentary seat. According to Dumelo, some politicians attempted to pit Yvonne against him before the 2020 elections, but she displayed great maturity. Dumelo shared on Twitter, “I recall @yvonnenelsongh reaching out to me before the 2020 elections to inform me that someone very close to the current president had asked her to run in Ayawaso West on the NPP ticket. Her exact words were, ‘John, I cannot do that to you. I told them no. I can’t jeopardize our longstanding friendship because of politics.'”
This development follows Yvonne’s revelation in her book ‘I Am Not Yvonne Nelson’ that in 2010, she was coerced into having an abortion because of rapper Michael Owusu Addo, popularly known as Sarkodie, who impregnated her and requested her to end the pregnancy. Yvonne stated Sarkodie refused to take responsibility for the child because he was living with his mother then and was not prepared to assume the role of a father.
In the same memoir, which was launched on Sunday, June 18, 2023, Yvonne disclosed an incident where she received a call from a government official urging her to run for the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency seat while Dumelo was also contesting on the National Democratic Congress ticket to represent the people.
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Source: Omanghana.com
