MP And Delegate Exchange Blows
Dan Botwe Intervenes

The New Patriotic Party has experienced yet another wrangling within its ranks when its Member of Parliament (MP) for Akuapem South, Seth Wiafe Danquah engaged in blows with a delegate of the party who was from the constituency capital, Nsawam. The fisticuffs would have produced bloody noses had General Secretary, Dan Botwe not stepped in to stop both MP and delegate from continuing the tango.

The occasion was the Eastern Regional Delegates congress and scores of over 1,000 party officials and delegates as well as observers quickly gathered at the corridor where the free show was being staged. When the two sweating men were pulled apart and questioned, it emerged that Mr Wiafe disapproved of Kingsley Nyinah’s inclusion as a delegate of his constituency. The MP had apparently selected some executives to attend the meeting that did not include Nyinah.

MOVE TO RESTRAIN NEW NPP EXECUTIVE

Six members of the New Patriotic Party in the Yilo Krobo Constituency have filed a writ of injunction at the Koforidua High Court, restraining nine purported elected Constituency executives from holding themselves as such.
The plaintiffs are Anthony Dzoboku, David Awuku Akakpo, Alex Narh Adjrakor, Samuel Tetteh Achrah, Stephen Ga-Enyo and I.K. Charkitey, who were contestants, with only the sixth person who as a Constituency polling station secretary.
The defendants are Kinsley Ampomah, Constituency Chairman, Victor Kwablah, first Vice Chairman; Kinsley Apori Asare, Second Vice Chairman and Nyade Stephen, Secretary. The rest are Ohepeni Ablordey, Treasurer; Eric Tetteh, Organiser; Michael Bruku, Youth Organiser; Joyce Love-Momoyo, Women’s Organier and Peter Appiah, Assistant Secretary.
According to the plaintiffs, they claimed that the election of the executives at a constituency delegates’ congress on 3 November, at Boti tails is a null and void, because the congress did not have any legal effect. Accordingly, the election of the party executive was slated to 3 November, but before the date, the secretariat learnt that the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Yilo Krobo Area, Christian Kofi Tetteh, had by then thrown his weight behind the defendants, an act which was considered unconstitutional.
It was alleged that the DCE promised the delegates to the congress Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) loans should they vote for the defendants. Following this, the plaintiffs said, the Constituency Executive Committee (CEC) there and then announced the postponement of the election.
But the DCE, who is not a member of the CEC, also announced in Town counteracting the earlier announcement by the CEC that the congress was not coming off, said the plaintiffs.
These aggrieved persons contended that whoever purportedly conducted the elections on 3 November, did not have the authenticated list of the accredited delegates who voted at the congress and that the purported election was fraudulent.
This is because some of the delegates who attended the congress held themselves out as polling station chairpersons but were found out to be non-polling station chairpersons. The Koforidua High Court hears the case tomorrow, 13 November.