Information reaching Apexnewsgh.com has it that, 23 members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Navrongo Constituency have been disqualified from contesting the polling station election.
According to one out of the 23 aggrieved disqualified members Gomez Ananzore, who is currently a sitting polling station Chairman for Old GBC Block 1, while narrating what happened, he said: “We picked a form to contest polling station executive position. So, when the forms were brought some of us who are old executives were denied forms. So, as you are aware in the district, if you cannot get a form you can apply to the region and if you apply to the region and you can get, you can apply to the national. So, we actually apply to the region and they made available some form for us”.
“So, after we filled those forms and wanted to present the district refused to take because they did not give us those forms and again we petition the region and the region instructed them to take it. So, when they picked the 54 forms, they decided to call for a face-to-face interview with only those 54 people which was given by the region.
“The panel was made of over 10 people chaired the Regional Nasara Coordinator Alhaji Siita. After the vetting, we were not told anything, only for us to hear that elections will be done today, so we also mobilize our people to go because we knew we have not done anything wrong, I have not been convicted of anything and am currently a polling station executive who still want to maintain his position. Out of the 54 applicants, 31 were disqualified and 23 were qualified.
Other 40 applicants who were not part of the 54 who received their forms from the region were all cleared”. He narrated
However, Mr. Ananzore believes some groups of people in Navrongo are hijacking the party by way of destroying the chances of others.
“Once they don’t want us, they should take their party and we are good to go and therefore posterity will judge all of us”. He concluded
However, when Apexnewsgh.com contacted the Regional Nasara Coordinator, who happened to be the Regional Chairman of the election committee Alhaji Mohammed Siita he said: “NPP as a party, we also have rules when it comes to conducting of elections and it doesn’t say because if you are this or that. If you want to contest, the form that you will pick, the rules are at the back of the form and you are supposed to take your time, study and know exactly what the requirements are before you can contest”.
“He who is asking for equity must come with clean hands”. You don’t just get up and say I want to be a party person and you will not be questioned in several ways to know whether you are eligible or not. No party does that. He maintained
“You applied and they went through that and found out that you have failed and you say you are leaving the party because of that? Who cares about that? Except those who don’t want the right thing to be done. I don’t care at all, because I know I have done what am supposed to do.
The first qualification is that you must be a member of good standing.
You should also be someone contesting in the position and be a voter at that particular polling station where you want to contest for the position.
He said, Per the NPP party, someone who is a voter at the polling station you want to contest must propose you.
Alhaji Siita said: “Some of them went and chose polling station that doesn’t exist and we said no, you cannot contest polling station that doesn’t exist. If you are a party person and a polling station has been moved, will still use that polling station to contest? You will not because if you are a party person, you will know that the polling station doesn’t exist any longer”.
“If you are a civil servant, you cannot contest, you are not supposed to be in active politics. So, if you are a worker of the Municipal Assembly, you can’t contest. Some of them that was their case. Some of them didn’t even know that someone has gone to pick a form on their behalf to fill for them.
Picking a form and filling for somebody is a crime”. He concluded
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