The National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammi Awuku has expressed worry at the increasing attacks on the newly elected young Parliamentary Candidates of the party.
[contextly_sidebar id=”6EALQYiHlbYdSMLFft5n9c4vSspKQQp8″]Some Ghanaians took to social media to criticise 22-year- old Francisca Oteng Mensah and 26-year-old Mavis Nkansah Boadu moments after they were elected in the Kwabre East and Afigya Sekyere East constituencies respectively.
They argued that the two lack experience needed for Parliamentary duties
However, Sammy Awuku in a rebuttal described attacks on the two as unacceptable and unwarranted.
“First of all they campaigned, they strategised and they won. You need courage to do two things in politics; courage to win and even courage to accept defeat.”
“Six students between the age of 19 and 21 are in the Canadian Parliament.All over the world, the dynamics are changing and if you have a country where you are asking the young people to get involved in the decision making process so you can entrust the future of a country by asking the young person to vote for a leader but you don’t want to entrust the leadership of a country in the hands of a young person then there is a problem there,” Mr. Awuku explained on Point Blank section of Eyewitness News.
NPP Primaries : We comported ourselves
The Youth Organiser said : “I was impressed and proud of the conduct of the party in the elections…NPP is a big party, out of over 200 constituencies, if there is trouble in only in a few of them that’s fine”
He further challenged persons speculating that there was vote-buying during the polls to substantiate their claims.
“If people believe there was vote-buying, they should report to the party for investigations to begin.
“When I hear some of these allegations I get worried. But then again I don’t. The party’s systems are clear …Some of the allegations of vote-buying in the NPP Primaries are just hearsay,” Awuku added.
Defeated aspirants are heroes
Mr. Awuku also hailed the defeated aspirants for mastering courage to contest in the polls and subsequently accepting defeat.
“Those who lost in the NPP Primaries are my heroes because they have courage to accept defeat for the party.”
He also called on the rank and file of the party to help groom the new aspirants.
“The big names who fell were also small names once. Let’s help and groom the new aspirants as well.”
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By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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