Tarkwa-Nsuaem NPP executives boycott elections committee
A public show of defiance has broken out within the New Patriotic Party in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Constituency, after a faction of executives boycotted the inauguration of the party’s polling station elections committee and took their grievances straight to Accra.
The walkout was not spontaneous, the executives say the committee was put together in a manner that bypassed the party’s own rulebook entirely, with loyalists of particular individuals quietly slipped into positions that should have gone through a proper selection process.
Kwadwo Antiedu Kwarteng, the constituency’s Financial Secretary and one of the key voices behind the protest, did not mince words. He pointed specifically to appointments in the Cyanide and Kwabedu electoral areas, saying: “You appoint staff of Mireku Duker as election committee member and christen them opinion leaders, knowing very well that the same people created chaos even during the polling station registration, is a bad decision.”
The deeper allegation is that the Constituency Secretary, Fuseni Amadu, handpicked committee members on his own, without convening a single Constituency Executive Committee meeting to approve the selections, as party rules require. Making matters worse, the Regional Secretary, Henry Amankwa Afrifa, reportedly admitted at the inauguration itself that he had pressured officials to rush the submission of names because of time constraints, an admission the petitioners say only confirms that due process was thrown out the window.
To compound the irregularity, names that appeared at the inauguration did not match previously known submissions, and nobody in the appropriate party structures had signed off on the changes.
The aggrieved executives, Constituency Organiser Augustine Quaicoe, Second Vice Chairman Frank Gyemfi, and Financial Secretary Kwarteng, have since fired off a formal petition to the NPP’s General Secretary in Accra, calling for the committee to be declared null and void and rebuilt from scratch.
Kwarteng framed the petition not as rebellion but as a defence of the party’s foundational principles. “The Party must not be allowed to collapse on the altar of extreme autocracy disguised as expediency or majority will,” he warned.
The petition also names the Constituency Chairman, Benjamin Assabill, among those who failed in their duty, accusing him of looking the other way while the process unravelled.
What the executives are asking for is straightforward: scrap the current committee, call a proper Constituency Executive Committee meeting, follow the rules, and where conduct warrants it, take disciplinary action against those responsible.
Whether national leadership acts on the petition, or files it quietly away, will say a great deal about how seriously the NPP takes its own internal democracy ahead of what promises to be a fiercely contested polling station election cycle.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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