There is escalating tension in the Oda Constituency of the ruling New Patriotic Party, NPP, over the electoral area coordinators election.
Scores of agitating polling station executives and some members of the party on Monday, March 28, 2022, at about 7:00am stormed the house of the member of Parliament for the area Alexander Akwasi Acquah an attempt to put him under house arrest.
The aggrieved polling station executives are demanding an explanation why the electoral area coordinators’ election has not been organized almost a month after the stipulated period.
The disgruntled polling station executives threatened to hold the MP hostage until he addresses their grievance.
However, the MP reportedly had had a hint of the invasion hence escaped at dawn to Accra before the arrival of the angry polling station executives.
The polling station executives and electoral area coordinators’ election of the NPP in the Eastern region was fraught with violence, confusion, and court injunctions due to widespread allegations of hoarding of nomination forms and manipulation of the electoral processes by mostly the members of Parliament.
In the Akuapem North constituency, for instance, the constituency Youth organizer Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie alias IGP has been suspended by the party for making unfounded allegations against President Akuffo Addo and the National Chairman of the party during the polling station executives and Electoral Area Coordinators election.
A letter issued and signed by the Eastern Regional Secretary of the NPP, Jeff Konadu stated that the decision to suspend the youth organizer was triggered by a petition dated March 23, 2022, from Mr. Carlos Jeffrey Abingale, a member of the party and a polling station youth organizer at Demonstration 1 polling station in Akuapem North Constituency invoking the jurisdiction of the Regional steering committee about the conduct of the constituency youth organizer which contravenes Article 3 clause 5A the party’s constitution.
