Confusion between NDC and Muntaka

Policy of Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

2019-07-16

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is confused about Mubarak Masawudu 's plans to challenge Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak' s candidacy for the Asawase constituency in Kumasi, in the Khartoum region. Ashanti.

The Masawudu campaign team claims that some regional leaders are trying to frustrate their candidate to withdraw from the contest to allow the incumbent MP to run unopposed for the year 2020.

The team stated that the nomination forms they had legitimately purchased at the party office were rejected by party leaders and that the party official who sold the forms was punished for his administrative work.

"The administrative secretary sold us the forms to the regional office. We paid him 2,000 GH ¢ in cash. Kwame Zu still denies that we did not choose forms because of their machinations to ensure that Muntaka did not have to oppose the primaries. But we Asawasians would oppose the plan to make the member unopposed. We chose the forms legally and we will press for our candidate to challenge, "said Shafi Ibrahim, the director in charge of operations for the aspirant, at Kasapa FM in Accra.

NDC reaction

In response, Kwame Zu, CND regional secretary in Ashanti, emphasized that the secretariat had no records that people had chosen forms other than Muntaka's after the deadline.

"The administrative secretary was dismissed immediately. She acted beyond the boundaries to give you forms (Masawudu camp) that are not part of her job description. it's up to me, as the regional secretary, to issue forms and no one else. As I speak, there are no secretarial records indicating the choice of forms. If you come to the regional office to choose forms, it should be for some reason explained why they were denied at the constituency level, "he said.

However, Masawudu's camp responded by saying that they had concrete evidence that their candidate had chosen and paid the form on Thursday and that no intrigue on the part of the leaders would change things.

Usman Nabali, a member of the Masawudu campaign team, the NDC's regional youth organizer, and the party's treasurer, nicknamed "power," were there to pay and collect the forms.

Another member of the team, Adam Mohammed, aka 'Ada & # 39; or Field Marshall, who said he was composed mainly of NDC constituency officials in Asawase, said they were filling out the forms and that they would submit them in time to the NDC competition. election to Asawase at all costs.

He said that despite the frustration of party leaders, Masawudu Mubarak would emerge as the winner of the upcoming polls and keep Asawase's seat for the NDC in 2020.