Some disgruntled supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Sunyani Municipality, on Tuesday hit the principal street of the Brong-Ahafo Regional capital, to protest against the Electoral Commission (EC).<\/p>\n
According to the supporters, they have made several appeals to the EC to organise a recount of votes in the Sunyani East constituency parliamentary primaries of the Party, held on Saturday May 13, but to no avail.<\/p>\n
They are challenging the outcome of the primary, which elected Mr Kwasi Ameyaw-Kyeremeh, the incumbent Member of Parliament for the area.<\/p>\n
Mr. Ameyaw-Kyeremeh polled 378 votes to beat his only contender, George Kumi, a former Ambassador, who obtained 377 votes in a keenly contested election.<\/p>\n
But the protestors, who wore red armbands, and held placards with inscriptions such as \u201cno Kumi no vote\u201d, \u201cAmeyaw-Kyeremeh stole the missing vote\u201d, \u201cEC don\u2019t be bias\u201d, \u201cNPP leadership show concern\u201d, insisted the counting process was rigged.<\/p>\n
Mr Samuel Kwame Awuah, Spokesperson of the demonstrators petitioned the Regional Secretariat of the NPP.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis protest is to draw the attention of the leadership of the NPP to rise up to its mandate of being democratic pace-setters,\u201d it stated.<\/p>\n
Addressing the demonstrators after they had converged at the Oti Yeboah Guest House (formerly Catering Rest House); Mr Kumi advised them to allow the Party leadership to deal with the matter.<\/p>\n
He expressed acknowledgement of their contributions in helping to address the problem, but asked them to avoid tendencies that could narrow the fortunes of the Party in Election 2016.<\/p>\n
Mr Kumi entreated his supporters to be law abiding and always follow the party\u2019s laid-down procedures and structures in addressing all grievances.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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