According to Nana Akomea, the Bawumia Campaign Team’s director of communications, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has urged NPP members to stay united as the party moves closer to this Saturday’s primaries.
He acknowledged that the party’s popularity was declining and stressed that internal conflicts might make matters worse.
Speaking on Peace FM, based in Accra, Nana Akomea stated, “So far 17 people have been disqualified…I pray that there was a basis for their disqualification to avoid division and someone going Independent.
“It will be problematic if someone goes independent; especially now that the NPP is not popular. We need unity, close all ranks and avoid divisions.”
The parliamentary primaries of the NPP are set for Saturday, January 27, 2024.
The party declared that it would make sure the primaries are held in an open, impartial, and free environment.
The general secretary, Justin Frimpong-Kodua, clarified that the procedures were designed to guarantee the integrity of the exercise in each of the 108 constituencies.
He declared that each constituency would have one voting location, unless instructed otherwise by the Electoral Commission (EC), which will oversee the primaries’ conduct to guarantee free, fair, and transparent elections. The polls are scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. and close at 2 p.m. on election day.
He issued a warning, saying that nobody else would act against the EC’s mandate and that the Ghana Police Service would handle all security matters, making sure that only legitimately identified delegates could enter the voting area where the open voting would take place.
In other news, the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has announced a media blackout on Mavis Hawa Koomson, the Minister of Fisheries and Member of Parliament for the Awutu Senya East Constituency.
This comes after thugs allegedly connected to Koomson attacked David Kobbina, a journalist from Cape FM in the Central Region.
On Thursday, January 25, GJA president Albert Kwabena Dwumfour announced a complete media blackout on Hawa Koomson during a press conference that was attended by senior journalists and addressed by the GJA leadership in collaboration with foreign stakeholders.
