The Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will be going to the poll on May 13, 2023, for their internal flagbearership and parliamentary primaries.
Apexnewsgh.com, as part of our usual public view seeking ahead of party elections in the Upper East region, has conducted extensive views and opinions from the people of Binduri regarding the National Democratic Party internal primaries
Binduri is one of the hottest constituencies to watch as far as the 13th May elections are concerned. Officially, two candidates, Lawyer Issifu Mahmoud a private legal practitioner and Robert Baba Kuganab-Lem are competing for the Binduri Parliamentary seat.
Whoever wins between the two candidates in the upcoming primaries on May 13 will be facing Mr. Abdulai Abanga the New Patriotic Party (NPP) only representative from the region in the Akufo-Addo second administration.
VIEWS
Note: One of the reasons that contributed to the loss of Binduri’s seat to the NPP in the 2020 election was as a result of disunity and party internal wrangling in the camp of Dr. Robert Baba Kuganab-Lem and the camp of Mr. Simon Azimbe another strong figure in the Binduri party politics.
Issues such as:
Disunity In The Party After Every Constituency Executives Election And Parliamentary Primaries
Poor Campaign Messages And Unfulfillment Of Some Promises
Neglect Of Party Foot Soldiers
Lack Of Social Interventions On The Side Of Our MPs And Other Government Appointees
Few Families Or Individuals Hijacking And Benefiting From The Party
Party Becoming Unattractive To The Youth
Failure In Developing The Human Resource Of The Party, where sighted as lapses that caused the Binduri NDC in the last election.
According to the views we collated from those who matter especially the delegates, In Binduri, there is a history or historical antecedent that, you don’t come once and win an election, especially with regards to MPs. Robert Baba Kuganab-Lem per history lost and came back before he won in the Binduri seat. The people of Binduri believe in this adage that says, ‘The devil you know is better than the angel you don’t know’. Some of these delegates still believe Dr. Robert Baba Kuganab-Lem even didn’t do things right in his first opportunity as an MP, with regard to development in the area like what the current NPP MP Abanga is doing on his first time in office.
Dr. Robert Baba Kuganab-Lem was the former Deputy Upper East Regional Minister before being elected as an MP by the people of Binduri from 2016 to 2020. But his own people still think they did not feel his representation in Parliament as expected.
Some also believe that Robert Baba Kuganab-Lem is a book-long type who finds it difficult to assist members of the constituents in time their needs when they knocked at his door for help. According to them, if Robert Baba Kuganab-Lem wants to move forward in politics, he must come down to the level of constituents and throw his book long to the British.
On the part of Lawyer Issifu Mahmoud, information also gathered during our visit in Binduri has it that, Lawyer Issifu only resurfaced after the 2020 election and started meeting with opinion leaders and party members to announce his interest in the party. He resigned as a police Officer.
We also gathered that at a time, the issue of disqualifying Lawyer Issifu Mahmoud came up due to his inactiveness in the party but the party concluded that they needed unity in Party. So, disqualifying him will rather bring more disunity because whether the party likes it or not, the Lawyer has his own party supporters. Hence, they must allow every sleeping dog to lie.
However, with all this brouhaha, we have gathered that Lawyer Issifu is penetrating seriously as well with his good message of hope to the Binduri people.
OUR PREDICTION
After analyzing the views gathered from delegates from Binduri by our ApexnewsGh team, we have the conviction that the May 13, primaries between Robert Baba Kuganab-Lem and Lawyer Issifu Mahmoud is going to be a tough one.
However, Robert Baba Kuganab-Lem will be able to sell through but not with much votes ahead of his contender Lawyer Issifu Mahmoud.
For the Flagbearership, John Dramani Mahama will get over 90.5 percent ahead of his other contenders Dr. Kwabena Duffour, a former Minister of Finance and Mr. Kojo Bonsu, a former Mayor of Kumasi will share the rest of the votes.
Apexnewsgh.com is noted for its accurate predictions of local elections so far within the Upper East region.
Please, these are views collated, the views expressed here were not our decision we engage those who matter.
Our good wish goes to the both candidates
Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana
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