Some New Patriotic Party (NPP) Electoral Area Coordinators have claimed they were prevented from participating in the just-ended Delegates Conference of the party in the Atwima-Nwabiagya South Constituency in the Ashanti Region.
According to Charles Henry Opoku, one of the affected Coordinators who represent Gyankobaa, he was allegedly chased out by armed police officers during the conference held at the party’s Constituency Office at Afari.
He claimed that he was prevented from partaking in the party’s constitutional duties over his entrench stance against supposed acts of intimidation by the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) Michael Amoah Awuku and the Member of Parliament (MP) Emmanuel Agyei Anhwere.
The enraged NPP man claimed that the action which created a scene, was at the instance of the MP and the MCE, and claimed further that the two officials plotted for him to be suspended from his position because he said he is not in support of the reappointment of the MCE.
According to Mr. Opoku, he had exercised his constitutional right by signing for the MP’s competitor during the primaries leading to the 2020 general election and also criticising the MCE over his work, and that had not impressed the two officials.
“The two officials resorted to victimising persons they perceive are their enemies and are using the constituency executives to facilitate this agenda by suspending them. I am a Polling Station Coordinator for 12 years and I have never misconducted myself to warrant this kind of embarrassment. Is that the kind of party we want to grow in the constituency in order to break the eight?” the Coordinator fumed.
He said the two officials have perceived him to be part of those who demonstrated against the MCE recently over his alleged divide and rule tactics in the municipality and his alleged weak performance.
The two officials have variously dismissed the Coordinator’s allegation as spurious.