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A group calling itself Concern Youth of Atwima Nwabiagya North are describing it as unconstitutional, attempts by the constituency executives to allow Member of Parliament for the constituency, Hon Benito Owusu Bio to go unopposed in the party’s approaching parliamentary primaries.
According to the group, the constituency executives in a series of meetings with the polling station executives concluded that nobody will be allowed to contest the sitting MP, a decision most of the polling station executives are not happy with.
Starting from first week of April, the constituency executives will send an endorsement forms to all the polling station executives to sign as they only need 40% and above the MP.
Concern youth of Awima Nwabiagya North believes this is totally against the party’s constitution and must be condemned.
The major political parties in Ghana have been democratizing their candidate selection process, allowing candidates to be freely selected through primary elections.
Nevertheless, the procedures employed by the parties to fill internal party positions or how they select candidates for parliamentary and presidential elections have not attracted the level of scholarly attention they deserve.
The problems that have characterised the Parliamentary primaries of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) keep recurring as the primaries are conducted across the various constituencies.
But a reliable source within the party in the constituency told Boss Fm’s Odiasempa Kwaku Mensah that they will not allow this to happen because it is totally wrong to make such a decision.
We will resist any attempt by the constituency executives to force us to sign and endorse Hon Benito Owusu Bio because he is not the only competent person in the party, the source added.
Source : Odiasempa Kwaku Mensah
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