The National Democratic Congress (NDC)\u00a0Parliamentary Nominee for the Ningo Prampram Constituency, Sam Dzata George, has denied using land guards to harass some residents of Dodowa in the Shai Osudoku Constituency.<\/p>\n
He has thus absolved himself of any blame in the reported tensions that took place at Dodowa during the\u00a0parliamentary primary in the\u00a0Shai Osudoku constituency on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Citi News<\/strong>\u2019 correspondent, Elvis Washington, reported that there were pockets of tension, mainly at the Post Office polling station, where one of the contestants, Dr. Michael Kpessa Whyte, the acting Executive Director of the National Service Secretariat, was hooted at<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n According to the crowd, Dr. Kpessa Whyte has allegedly brought land guards to intimidate them for which they were hooting at him and his team of well-built men. The situation could have gotten chaotic but for the timely intervention of the police who beefed up the numbers of personnel at the polling station.<\/p>\n Some of voters shouted: \u201cwhy would you bring land guards here to kill us if you are campaigning to lead us\u201d, Dr Kpessa Whyte, we don\u2019t know you so please kindly stay off the constituency\u201d among others.<\/p>\n Some of the angry voters \u00a0also alleged that the NDC\u2019s Ningo Prampram Parliamentary candidate and presidential staffer, Sam George, who was seen in the company of Dr. Kpessa Whyte, is the mastermind behind the land guards in the town.<\/p>\n But speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, the Ningo Prampram Parliamentary Nominee, Sam George, denied the allegations saying he was currently in his own constituency.<\/p>\n Sam George\u00a0however admitted he had earlier been in the Shai Osudoku constituency,\u00a0specifically at the Post Office polling station, but only to monitor what was going on during the election.<\/p>\n According to Sam George, \u201cWhatever affects Ningo Prampram affects Shai Osudoku and whatever affects Shai Osudoku affects Ningo Prampram. This is the primary and so I decided to go to my constituency through Shai Osudoku just to be abbressed with the issues and whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n He also noted that at the Post Office polling station, he didn\u2019t see any incidents of violence or any macho men intimidating voters.<\/p>\n NDC not a violent party<\/strong><\/p>\n Sam George\u00a0further retorted that the NDC was not a party prone to violence and suggested that elements of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) were fanning tensions.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the NDC, we are not talking about the NPP. The NDC is not a violent party. We don\u2019t do things with macho men and land guards. I don\u2019t know if you spoke to the right people in the constituency or maybe NPP members in the community who just want to paint a bad picture of a very peaceful process in Shai Osudoku.\u201d<\/p>\n