Tension is building up in some Constituencies in the Eastern region over “hidden” polling station forms for the internal contest of the ruling party.
There was confusion Saturday morning at the New Juaben North constituency office of the ruling New Patriotic Party, NPP, after executives of the party failed to open nomination for the polling station elections.
Over one hundred members of the party became stranded at the party office which was locked denying them the opportunity to pick forms to contest at the polling station level.
Some angry NPP members alleged that has been the modus operandi of the constituency executives and the Member of Parliament Nana Adjei Boateng over the years as part of the grand scheme for their political aggrandizement.
The stranded members, therefore, called on the party’s general secretary John Boadu to swiftly intervene to avert clashes since they will resist all attempts to deny them from contesting.
They also threatened to put injunction the polling station election in the constituency if their grievances were not addressed immediately.
In New Juaben South, there was a shortage of polling station forms. Members who were interested in the contest became stranded creating confusion.
There has been a mad rush for the picking of nomination forms for the polling station elections in parts of Eastern Region Saturday.
Abuakwa North:
Close to a thousand members of the ruling New Patriotic Party, NPP, have stormed the Abuakwa North constituency office of the party in a mad rush to secure forms to contest the polling station election
The forms arrived last night. Some members of the party were already sleeping at the office in wait for the forms.
Initial information that there were not enough forms for all the potential aspirants nearly caused a stampede at the office.
Abuakwa North currently has over 400 polling stations.
The ruling New Patriotic Party announced a timetable for the election of Executives from polling stations to the National starting this month.
The party said in a statement that, it will begin with the Polling Stations Elections which will start on 20th February, across all the polling stations in the country.
Subsequently, the party will hold its Electoral Area Coordinators election, and the Constituency Executives elections in March, this year.
While the Regional and National Executives Elections will also take place in April and June 2022 respectively.
Already, the Party has issued a code of conduct to regulate the conduct of party members in both presidential and parliamentary primaries ahead of the 2024 elections to avert certain injurious mistakes committed in the 2020 elections.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
