Akufo-Addo to mediate Subin NPP dispute

President Nana Akufo-Addo is expected to engage New Patriotic Party leaders and supporters in the Subin constituency in the Ashanti Region to broker peace following the growing tension between supporters of the sitting Member of Parliament (MP), Eugene Boakye Antwi, and his opponents ahead of constituency primaries.

Mr Antwi is facing stiff opposition from key figures including persons affiliated to Mr Isaac Osei, a former MP for the area, who is now boss of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR).

An ongoing acrimonious campaign with accusations and counter-accusations with the aim of unseating the sitting MP is becoming a threat to the party’s strength and cohesion, but President Akufo-Addo, who is currently visiting the Ashanti Region, will hopefully meet various interest groups to broker peace.

There are reports that some heavily built men stormed the venue of a delegates’ conference in the constituency today, June 23, at the GNAT Hall to prevent the constituency chairman of the NPP, Francis Boamah, from entering the conference room without accreditation, resulting in blows being traded.

The Chairman is said to have been subjected to severe beating by some men, needing the intervention of police personnel to salvage the situation.

In an interview with Accra FM's Elisha Adarkwah, Mr Boamah, accused the MP of intentionally hiring the macho men to disgrace him at the delegates’ conference.