NPP Primaries: Philip Addison runs to national leadership over disqualification

NPP parliamentary hopeful, Philip Addison, has petitioned the national leadership of the party over his disqualification from the race in the Akuapem North constituency.

Mr. Addison, who pleaded with the leadership to investigate the circumstances that lead to his disqualification, believes it was ‘premeditated’.

He says the claims that he has failed to nurture the constituency were false as he has been giving “assistance to the party for a long time, stretching from the time of Lawyer W.O. Boafo and the previous executives to date.”

Mr Addison added that he has contributed his quota to the party.

He is, therefore, asking the national leadership, in his petition, to overturn his disqualification so he can contest the deputy Minister for Information, Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah Adjei, who is the incumbent MP.

“I have worked hard to enhance the image of the party in the Constituency. I have established a rapport with all the chiefs in the Constituency and within this short space of time, I have endeared myself to a majority of the delegates and the electorate…I pray that the Committee will find my contributions to the party worthy of recognition.”

“I respectfully invite the Committee to look favourably on my petition, reverse the disqualification and allow me to contest the parliamentary primaries in the Akuapem North Constituency,” Mr. Addison added in the petition.

Philip Addison contested in the 2016 elections on the ticket of the NPP in the Klottey Korle constituency but lost to the NDC’s Dr Zanetor Rawlings.