A group calling itself concerned Members of New Patriotic Party, NPP, in Akwatia has accused the National Women’s Organizer, Kate Gyamfua of destroying the party in the constituency.
The group says, the phenomenon led to the party’s loss of the Akwatia Parliamentary seat.
Addressing the media Tuesday at Akwatia, the group alleged Kate Gyamfua’s hatred and dislike to the outgoing Member of Parliament Mercy Adu Gyamfi alias Ama Sey since 2015 has festered to disunite the party.
This, the group alleges, manifested during the Parliamentary primaries when votes were manipulated to favor Ernest Yaw Kumi, a darling boy of Kate Gyamfua to unseat Ama Sey as a parliamentary candidate despite his unpopularity in the constituency.
“What we see today started in 2015 when Kate Gyamfua was the deputy National Women’s Organizer and Ama Sey, the Constituency women’s Organizer, and Major Financier of our Party from 2012 to 2016. This was the period when NPP was in opposition and indeed she was the main financier during the 2016 campaign where she overthrew the infamous Baba Jamal” Nana Yaw Addo convener of the group claimed.
He continued “In 2016 when we were preparing to go for primaries to elect a candidate to face Baba Jamal, decided to present a woman for strategic reasons. Their preferred Candidate was Kate Gyamfua but she declined based on her lack of education and inability to speak English if elected to Parliament. Ama Sey availed herself, a decision Kate Gyamfua did not only find disgruntled with but went ahead to fight against through her primaries to the main contest against the NDC. It is common knowledge in Akwatia that Kate Gyamfua supported Baba Jamal to defeat Ama Sey in 2016 but it failed.
According to the Concerned Members of the NPP in Akwatia,” all attempts made by some community chiefs and elders to resolve this impasse and unite the two women failed as Kate Gyamfua in most cases did not honor the invitation”.
Ama Sey led the NPP in 2016 to defeat then-incumbent NDC MP Baba Jamal in 2016. But Ama Sey who won the seat to become Member of Parliament lost her bid for re-election during the Parliamentary primaries of the party.
She claimed the primaries were rigged to favor Ernest Yaw Kumi who won by a slim margin.
During the just-ended Presidential and Parliamentary elections, the opposition NDC Parliamentary candidate Henry Yiadom Boakye recaptured the Akwatia seat from NPP with 19,899 votes representing 51.5% while NPP’s Ernest Kumi secured 18,742 votes representing 48.5% out of the total 38,646-total valid votes cast.
In the presidential election, Nana Akufo-Addo polled 21,758 while former President John Mahama also garnered 16,181 votes. This means supporters of the NPP voted for skirts and blouse.
Nana Yaw Addo convener of Concerned Members of NPP in Akwatia said Kate Gyamfua who hails from Akwatia has become a ” rich demi-god ” wreaking the NPP party apart in Akwatia hence the defeat.
The group called the bluff threat by the constituency executives to sack Ama Sey from the party and suspend en masse her loyalists.
“We want to declare today that nobody can sack anyone from the party and no one is leaving. We all created the problems we see today and it is a collective responsibility on all of us to find a middle ground to resolve “.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
