THE National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Peter Mac Manu, has ordered executives of the Tema West Constituency branch of the party to suspend all activities relating to the constituency elections until the national office finds lasting solutions to the fracas within the rank and file.
He was speaking in a telephone interview with the Daily Graphic in reaction to news that arrangements were in place for the constituency elections to be held tomorrow.
Mr Mac Manu said the issue of the disputed polling station elections held in September had been referred to the party’s election committee and that even though some meetings had been held with the various parties in the dispute, a ruling was yet to be made on the matter.
“It is, therefore, wrong and improper for any party to take the law into its own hands and run an election of any kind,” he stressed.
The Tema West Constituency witnessed various forms of controversy during the election of polling station executives, leading to aggrieved members pointing accusing fingers at the Chairman, Mr Paul Sampana-Azure, and the MP for the area, Ms Irene Naa Torshie Addo, whom they accused of subverting the process by intimidating members into accepting their selected persons, instead of electing persons using the laid down modalities.
This resulted in a member of the NPP taking the matter to court to seek reliefs, among others, to declare null and void the polling station elections.
It is learnt that aggrieved members, who pleaded anonymity, have vowed to disrupt activities should the MP and the chairman, as well as their allied bodies, continue with their plans to hold the elections.
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