Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwabena Agyepong, has cautioned the party’s executives not to stir the party in any other direction in the ongoing polling station executives’ election.
He observed that the acrimony that has characterized the polls is a direct response to attempts to manipulate the processes.
According to him, members of the party should be allowed to decide who they want to vote for and should be allowed to make their own choices.
His calls follow the acrimony that has engulfed the local polls with party members accusing their national executives of bias and favouritism.
There have even been claims of forms hijack and unfair disqualifications.
He noted: “In times past when there is a polling station elections you don’t even hear it. You have to have an even playing field. Create an enabling environment for everyone to win the confidence of the electorate. In our time, we were able to do over 250 parliamentary elections in one day”.
Meanwhile, the state has sued 12 aspiring polling station delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Subin Constituency in the Ashanti Region for unlawful closure of the party’s constituency office.
The group locked the party office in protest over alleged bias towards them in the polling station election by the elections committee of the party.
The agitated members claim that some party members who picked forms to contest for various positions in the party at the polling station level have been disqualified.
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