Petition appeals committee<\/strong><\/p>\nHe said per the party\u2019s timetable, \u201cthe appeals committee of the region will be sitting today\u2026 So I called all of them yesterday in the night to inform that about the decision and gave them the reason why they were disqualified. I told him, they said you have not nurtured the party at the constituency.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI told him that this is the position of the vetting committee so he can take advantage of the sitting of the appeals committee to come down today and contest the decision and he agreed with me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Upon hearing the vetting committee\u2019s decision on Carlos Ahenkorah some delegates gathered in front of chairman Ashitey\u2019s house to protest.<\/p>\n
In all 93 aspirants were vetted in the Greater Accra Region and four out of this number have been disqualified.<\/p>\n
Aspirant disqualified\u00a0over false documents<\/strong><\/p>\nIn the Dome Kwabenya Constituency, a\u00a0disqualified parliamentary aspirant,\u00a0Isaac Owuraku Amofa\u00a0will contest the party’s decision of disqualifying him.<\/p>\n
According to him, he suspects that the incumbent MP of the area, Adwoa Safo influenced the decision.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Citi News,<\/strong> Isaac Owerieku Amofa indicated that he will seek redress at the appropriate quarters.<\/p>\n\u201cWe went for vetting and apparently we were told we were going to do the balloting later on but last Friday I overheard \u00a0some of the regional executives telling me that Adwoa Safo has been calling them to do everything they can to disqualify me,” he said.<\/p>\n
So just this morning I received a text message from our constituency chairman. It reads: ‘the regional chairman has directed that you should inform Isaac Amofa the vetting committee has disqualified him on grounds that he failed to present his original certificate to the committee.’ This is a palpable lie\u2026I presented all certificates to them\u2026it baffles my mind. For now I\u2019ve spoken with my lawyers and as the constitution demands, I would have to appeal so I\u2019m going to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
In\u00a0the Greater Accra Regional Deputy Secretary of the NPP, Adams Sabo Abdul Rahman, has denied any influence of the incumbent MP.<\/p>\n
He explained to Citi News<\/strong> why the Party disqualified Isaac Owerieku Amofa from contesting.<\/p>\n\u201cHis was put on hold until he provided the necessary documents. We went through the documents and then its like he kept on changing from one document to another. We realized that with such name variations there are no other areas that we can authenticate these things.”<\/p>\n
“We asked him to bring his secondary school certificate, he was able to bring it and the name was also different from what he presented earlier in other certificates. I believe this is what the committee looked at very critically because eventually if he becomes the candidate of the party and it turns out that the certificates that you have presented are not the true copies of the certificates he is indicating its going to affect the party. Besides that we didn\u2019t want to have any problem with any of our candidates in this particular exercise,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Aspirant in Akwatia vows to wrestle power from Baba Jamal\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nIn another development, one of two contenders of the Akwatia parliamentary seat, Philip Owusu Ankomah has expressed optimism of annexing the seat from the incumbent, Baba Jamal of the NDC.<\/p>\n
According to him the NDC has failed to develop the Akwatia Constituency hence his optimism.<\/p>\n
He said he has what it takes to turn the fortunes of the constituency around if elected as a representative of Akwatia.<\/p>\n
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By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n