Rerun NPP Okaikoi South primary - Vickie Bright urges NPP
A New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary hopeful for the Okaikoi South Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Ms Vickie Bright, has petitioned the leadership of the party to act with fairness and equity by rerunning the Okaikoi South primary.
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This, according to her, has become imperative because “the Okaikoi Constituency was twinned with Osu Klottey Korle for the illegal and invalid parliamentary primary purportedly held on August 2, 2015’’.
However, Ms Bright, in the latest petition to the NPP, stated that whereas the differences at the Klottey Korle Constituency had been settled, with the defective election cancelled by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NPP, the same party seemed to disregard the reality of meting out a similar treatment to Okaikoi South.
Fifth petition
Ms Bright indicated that this was the fifth petition she had sent to the leadership of the NPP which had not been acknowledged.
The Daily Graphic has a copy of the latest petition sent to the NPP early this year.
She explained that her intention to petition the party was not to cause offence but to ‘’merely assert my lawful rights and state the painful truth which relentlessly stares the party in the face.
“I do demand here and now that the party treats me with the same degree of fairness as it has treated some of my friends.
She was dismayed that despite the commonalities of issues which prevailed in the Okaikoi South and Osu Klottey Korle consistencies, “the Okaikoi South matter seems shelved with the party deliberately turning a blind eye to it.’’
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Predisposition
She stressed that anything less than that simply reinforced the negative image of party as one predisposed to prejudice and bias towards Ga women and other minorities in the NPP.
Ms Bright further demanded a response to her petitions “bearing in mind the gravity of the matters stated in the petition”.
She said it had also come to her notice that the steering committee of NEC had recently decided to merge the two different albums in existence in the Ablekuma West Constituency in order to resolve the problems in that constituency in favour of an Akan against a Ga candidate.
Favouritism
“I must say that from where I am sitting, this clearly depicts deep unashamed favouritism and bias as compared to the party's handling (or rather not handling) of the shambolic state of affairs in my constituency, Okaikoi South” Ms Bright said.
According to her, the situation in Okaikoi South, which had resulted in “one Ahmed Arthur being pushed to occupy a seat in our revered Parliament is a perpetuation of the party's deliberate and systematic failures and omissions to act. Necessary as it is now, I have resolved to cause the removal of a candidate who is doomed, one that the party itself found to be fraudulent, and thereby declared [him] to be disqualified and ineligible to present to the EC for the 2012 election. But he became its parliamentary candidate through unconstitutional machinations I find most extraordinary.”