There is confusion in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) over plans by Mubarak Masawudu to contest Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak for the Asawase Constituency in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region on the ticket of the party.
The campaign team of Masawudu is claiming that the some regional executives are scheming to frustrate their candidate so that he would drop out of the contest to allow the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) to go into the 2020 unopposed.
The team said nomination forms they legitimately bought from the party’s office is being rejected by the party’s executives and the party official who sold the forms is being punished for doing her administrative job.
“The administrative secretary sold the forms to us at the regional office. We paid GH¢2000 cash to her. Kwame Zu is still denying that we’ve not picked forms because of their machinations to make Muntaka go unopposed in the primaries. But we the Asawase people would fight the plans to make the MP unopposed. We picked the forms in a legal way and we’ll push it for our candidate to contest,” Shafi Ibrahim, who said he is the Director in charge of Operations for the aspirant, told Kasapa FM in Accra yesterday.
NDC Reaction
In his reaction, Kwame Zu, Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NDC insisted that the secretariat does not have any records of anybody picking forms apart from Muntaka after the deadline.
“The administrative secretary has been relieved of her post immediately. She acted beyond bounds to issue forms to you (Masawudu camp) which is not part of her job description; it’s exclusively my job as the regional secretary to issue out forms and nobody else. As I speak to you, there are no secretarial records of anybody picking forms. If you come to the regional office to pick forms, it should be for a stated reason concerning why they were denied the forms at the constituency level,” he said.
However, the Masawudu camp has hit back saying they have concrete evidence to the effect that their candidate picked and paid for the form on Thursday and no amount of scheming by the executives would change matters.
According to a member of Masawudu’s campaign team called Usman Nabali, the NDC regional youth organizer and the party’s treasurer, nicknamed as ‘Power’, were present when they paid for and collected the forms.
Another member of the team, Adam Mohammed, aka ‘Ada’ or Field Marshall, who said they are made up of mostly NDC constituency executives at Asawase, said they were filling the forms and that they would submit it on time and contest in the NDC election at Asawase at all costs.
He stated that despite the frustration by the party executives, Masawudu Mubarak would emerge as winner in the upcoming polls and retain the Asawase seat for the NDC in 2020.
Source: Daily Guide
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GENERAL ASIEDU NKETIA AND CHAIRMAN OFOSU AMPOFO MUST WORK TO STOP THOSE ACTS THAT WILL DIVIDE THE PARTY AND CREATE MORE CONFUSIONS. PICKING OF FORMS ARE A SOURCE OF INCOME (REVENUE) TO THE PARTY. THEY SHOULD ALLOW AS MANY AS POSSIBLE INTERESTED CONTESTANTS PICK FORMS AND SUBMIT. IF THE EXECUTIVES ARE SURE THAT A PARTICULAR CANDIDATE CAN WIN THE SEAT JUDGING FROM THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH THE ELECTORATES IN THAT CONSTITUENCY, THE IT BEHOVES ON THE NATIONAL AND CONSTITUENCY EXECUTIVES TO WORK BEHIND CLOSE DOORS TO GET TH ELECTORATES TO VOTE THEIR (EXECUTIVES) CANDIDATE. WE DON'T NEED ANY DIVISIONS NOW IN THE NDC PARTY SINCE OUR CHANCES ARE CURRENTLY MUCH MORE BRIGHTER THAN EVEN IN 2012. PLEASE EXECUTIVES KEEP THE PARTY TOGETHER AND AVOID DISUNITY
Wontumi can whatever he want,what God has written is written,the evil men do leave after them,so he can go on. Well if the form was pick after the deadline than the Executives shouldn't allow it. God Bless Ghana.
Pls leave Chairman One Wontumi out of PURELY NDC confusion wai.
MUNTAKA MUBARAK, if you have worked as an member of paliament why dont you want anybody to contest you and the party General secretary has no remedy to the situation. Allow the process to flow if you have a testicular muscle , why prevent anybody from picking a form. The battle is indeed the lords.
NDC must watch Wontumi very well. He is a potential treat to party unity in that Region.
The NDC as a party has never operated in a democratic manner. Right from the formation of the party through the period of Rawlings, Mills and Mahama. Undemocratic practices is part of their DNA and it will be very difficult for them to change.