Ashanti NPP cautions parliamentary aspirants
As hundreds express interest and scores pick up forms in the stronghold of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region to contest the parliamentary primaries, the hierarchy of the NPP in the Ashanti Region has issued a stern warning that any parliamentary aspirant whose utterances and behaviour or those of his supporters would affect the unity of the party will be dealt with.
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Mr Sam Pine, the regional secretary of the party, insists that the increasing number of party members expressing interest, picking forms and returning them to contest any of the 47 parliamentary slots in the region should be used to rekindle the spirit of members and “mobilise more voters to boot out the incompetent NDC government.”
Speaking to the Daily Graphic in Kumasi, Mr Pine noted that the party would not sit idle while few people malign themselves and throw mud at each other all in name of striving to become parliamentary candidates of the party in the region.
He explained that the NPP would not want to waste time on reconciliation, hence the decision to caution would-be troublemakers.
According to him, the leadership of the party in the region were wide awake and that anyone who would be found flouting the rules and regulations, especially those regarding comments that would bring disunity, would not be spared.
Mr Pine explained that each aspirant who picked a form was given full details of the rules and regulations governing the primaries and activities during the electioneering and urged interested aspirants to be guided by those rules and regulations.
He urged the party members to use their campaign to become the party’s candidates to win more souls for the party as a means to ensure the party’s resounding victory in the 2016 presidential election, while forming absolute majority in Parliament.
Currently, more people are flooding the offices of the various constituencies of the party to pick nomination forms to contest the 43 sitting Members of Parliament for the party in the region.
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The remaining four, which are being occupied by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MPs, are also up for grabs.
The NPP opened nomination on March 30, 2015, and will close it on April 30, 2015 to be followed by vetting from May 4 to 7. Election of aspirants will be held on June 13, 2015.