The Greater Accra Regional leadership of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rejected the report which cleared some \u00a0Parliamentary aspirants \u00a0who were disqualified by the Vetting Committee.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”1uLloUpPG7BO4FeWfEWdgQzAgaN3j15u”]The NPP\u2019s Appeals Committee after deliberations cleared some disqualified aspirants<\/a><\/strong><\/span> including one Carlos Ahenkorah of the a Tema West constituency to contest the primaries.<\/p>\n Media reports said the aspirants had been cleared to contest the party\u2019s primaries on June 13.<\/p>\n But addressing a news conference on Tuesday, the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the NPP, Ishmael Ashitey said the report of the Appeals Committee does not hold.<\/p>\n He stated emphatically that the Greater Accra regional steering committee made the decision to reject the report.<\/p>\n According to Ashitey, there are a lot of \u201cinconsistencies, a lot of mistakes here and there that we feel we should not allow this report to stand so we are rejecting the report.\u201d<\/p>\n The regional chairman said a letter has been written to the Appeals Committee asking them to be \u201cimpartial, fair and objective in their deliberations because we have seen some contradictions here and there.\u201d<\/p>\n After the NPP ended the vetting of all parliamentary candidate aspirants across the country, some aggrieved disqualified candidates were asked file an appeal to get redress.<\/p>\n Notable amongst them was Carlos Ahenkorah who has received massive support from party members in his constituency since the process began.<\/p>\n The Tema West NPP members threatened to vote against the party if their preferred candidate was disqualified.<\/p>\n They were convinced that Ahenkorah is the best candidate to retain the seat for the party in 2016 if allowed to contest the primaries.<\/p>\n The party members further accused the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Naa Torshie Addo of scheming to get Ahenkorah disqualified.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Ahenkorah was however disqualified despite protests<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>from the party members on the grounds that he failed to nurture the party at\u00a0the constituency level.<\/p>\n He told Citi News<\/strong> in a later interview that the reasons for his disqualification were frivolous<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and gave indications that he will file an appeal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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