There is serious anger and tension in the New Juaben South constituency of the ruling New Patriotic Party following the deployment of armed military, national security operatives, and police for the ongoing polling station elections.
Some aggrieved candidates of the ongoing polling station election of the NPP in New Juaben South constituency have accused the Member of Parliament Michael Okyere Baafi of using the armed military, national security, and police to intimidate and manipulate the election in his favor.
There was a widespread denial of nomination forms and foul disqualification of many aspirants perceived not to be fanatics of the MP in many polling stations across the constituency leaving favorites of the lawmaker to contest unopposed.
Some unknown persons are bused and moved around to vote in various Polling stations where they do not have the voting right with the tacit support of the joint armed security.
On Tuesday for instance same tactics were used to manipulate the election at Koforidua Polytechnic polling station election.
The election which was supposed to come off around 8:00am was delayed after some candidates contesting the election resisted attempts to force strange voters bused in two sprinter vehicles to vote.
However to the surprise of the aggrieved candidates, the national security, police, and military stormed the polling station center at about 7:30pm to supervise a fraudulent process at the blind side of some of the candidates and delegates who had left the grounds to their homes.
The polling station election in New Juaben South is taking place despite an ex-parte court injunction secured by some aggrieved members against the process.
The four plaintiffs, Jalil Ibn Tahir, Amoh Jonas, Ako George, and Mable Asantewaa Aikins, accused the constituency executives and MP Micheal Okyere Baafi of deliberately denying them nomination forms instead sold them to their favorites.
However, Michael Okyere Baafi has denied the allegations. He has also stated that nobody in the party has been served with the injunction.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
