Bitter Fight In NPP Over Benyiwa-Doe

Six New Patriotic Party (NPP) stalwarts in the Gomoa West Constituency of the Central Region who believe that the parliamentary seat there is theirs for the picking are therefore ready to unleash their macho men on one another

The fear of such a dog-eat-dog situation materializing sooner than later has forced the NPP Gomoa West Constituency Women?s Organiser, Miss Grace Okoe, to appeal to the leadership fo the party to urgently fix a date for the holding of the primary election their to elect a parliamentary candidate.

Mis Okoe, popularly called ?Santana? and a likely contender, said that with the voters? registration exercise over, the Gomoa West primary could be held early to avoid it coinciding with other programmes of the Electoral Commission.

Making the appeal through the Ghana News Agency at the Apam, the Constituency Women?s Organiser said the holding of the event would ?end acrimony and tension, which have characterised the campaign of the supports? of the candidates contesting the primaries. ?On a number of occasions some of us have had to hold the supporters in check to prevent them from taking the law into their own hands,? she said, stressing the seriousness and depth of the anomy which is threatening within NPP ranks in Gomoa West.

Miss Okoe said apart from the delay in holding the primary causing a drain on the resources of the aspiring candidates, it was also affecting party organisation and campaign since the constituency was an orphan.

Mrs. Ama Benyiwa-Doe, the incumbent Gomoa West MP of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is to contest the seat on the party?s ticket, but apparently the NPP aspirants give her no chance, hence their readiness to win their party?s candidature by hook or crook.