Keea NPP Blames Ohene Ntow for Woes

Elmina — The General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Ohene Ntow, has come under severe criticism for masterminding the delay in the swearing-in of elected Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) party executives, which has brought activities of the party in the constituency to a halt.

Ntow is also accused of running the party as his own business, creating problems in various constituencies across the country.

At a press conference to call on regional and national executives to swear-in the new KEEA constituency executives, Nanabanyin Dadze, Chairman of the polling station executives and electoral coordinators of KEEA, said they would not hold any fresh elections because 418 out of 565 polling station executives in the constituency have appended their signatures to the last elections held on January 2 this year at Edinaman Senior High School.

He said because the regional executives of the party failed to swear them in owing to misunderstanding that greeted the said congress, KEEA missed out of the Central Regional NPP delegates' conference where incumbent chairman and secretary, Danquah Smith and Kwamena Duncan were retained. Nanabanyin Dadze said they would not sit down and watch the impending national delegates' conference of NPP pass over them and that they would have nothing to do with the NPP in KEEA if the national executives fail to pay attention to their demand.

Relevant Links West Africa Ghana Nanabanyin, who was flanked by Ransford Kwesi Sackey, secretary of the polling station executives, Christian K. Yeboah, Council Lane Coordinator and Paul Ambantam Cobbinah, gave 72-hour ultimatum to NPP Chairman, Peter Mac Manu, Nana Ohene Ntow, NPP General Secretary and Central Regional chairman and secretary, Smith and Duncan to swear-in the elected executives before the national conference. They regretted that Ohene Ntow who supervised the defeat of the NPP in 2008 was seeking another mandate and urged him to resign gracefully. Failure to meet their demands, he said, will give them opportunity to advise themselves.

The fact of the matter is that some policemen were used to arrest polling station executives scheduled to vote in the KEEA Constituency NPP delegates' conference, a situation which scared many polling station executives to vote at the conference.

Some were detained while others sneaked out but two thirds majority of the quorum of 565, being 376, participated in the said election after the police had scared people away.