NPP Primary: "Dirty", Wontumi Must Recuse – Group Requirements

Politics of Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Source: mynewsgh.com

2019-07-23

Patriotic Youth Alliance, a pro-new Patriotic Party (NPP) group, has issued a stern warning to Ashanti regional president Bernard Antwi Boasiako, so that he recuses himself before the impending parliamentary primaries, as he appears to be corrupt. and could compromise the whole process.

The NPP has officially opened the window for parliamentary election candidates to choose nomination forms in the party's constituency offices to participate in the September parliamentary primaries, but the group suspects the involvement of the regional president of the party. to defeat fair play in the whole process.

"We admire and respect him, but we want him to recuse himself from the people," group member Thomas Boakye told Kumasi's Nhyira FM morning show, watched by MyNewsGh. com.

According to the group, he reportedly learned that President Antwi Boasiako, known as Wontumi, is planning to impose certain candidates on voters by preventing other readable and legible candidates from standing for election.

"Our research shows that the president, we respect so much, wants to protect some members in place and impose new faces on others. But we want to tell him that this will have disastrous consequences for us as a political party in 2020, "said Thomas Boakye to host Kofi Asante Ennin.

NPP National Director of Research and Elections, Mr. Evans Nimako, declared Saturday, July 20, 2019 that the collection of nomination forms was to be completed by August 3, 2019.

He added that interested parties are expected to pay GH ¢ 2 000 in the name of the party to the bank and submit the banker's project before acquiring the forms. Applicants are also expected to submit a GH ¢ 20,000 bank draft when filing their application by August 3, 2019.

The party's national leaders, he said, were badigned to all regions of the country to facilitate the holding of the parliamentary elections, but explained that a constituency parliamentary election committee had been responsible for the sale of forms in 106 constituencies participating in the process. polls.