It was one hell of a time for one of the aspiring parliamentary candidates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Weija Constituency, Mrs. Shirley Short, a.k.a. Naa Ayorkor Botchwey, when party chiefs in the constituency planned to endorse her candidature by popular acclamation at a constituency primary last Tuesday.

It took the bravery of her supporters and sympathisers to quell what otherwise would have been a nasty incident at the premises of Odorgonno Secondary School, the venue for the congress. When matters got to a head, Naa Ayorkor and the Greater Accra Regional first vice chairman of the NPP, Mr. R.O. Solomon were both whisked away from angry delegates who were opposed to the party?s acclamation of Ayorkor Botchwey as the NPP?s parliamentary candidate for the constituency. The popular acclamation, the delegates argued, amounts to imposition of Ayorkor as NPP?s candidate for the constituency.

The angry delegates who were initially outsmarted, later chased the two cars carrying Ayorkor Botchwey and Mr Solomon wielding stones and sticks, but the drivers accelerated to save their own lives and those of the two officials. The unceremonious departure of the two did not however stop the riotous delegates on one hand and supporters of Ayorkor Botchwey from exchanging blows throw stones at each other while others too tried to club their opponents.

In the ensuring fight one person, believed to be a supporter of Ayorkor Botchwey, sustained a deep cut on the fore head.