Bekwai// Facts gathered by Mnews indicate that the Ashanti Regional NPP Executives are bent on disassociating themselves and subsequently expelling any member from the party, who contests as an independent candidate in the December 7, 2020 general elections.
This claim has created tectonic forces that are gathering and gaining momentum to explode in the Bekwai Constituency as the people are ready to rebel against the imposition of the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) Hon. Joe Osei Owusu on them as their representative in the next Parliament.
According to Mnews Ashanti regional correspondent, Afranie John, Bekwai Constituency appears to be the only Constituency in Ghana where political activities towards the forthcoming December 7 polls is boiling.
He said, what has even triggered their anger and zeal is the news making the rounds that the Regional Party Executives have decided to deal ruthlessly with any member who will contest as an independent candidate.
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This information has galvanized the constituents, especially the youth, into organizing spontaneous political street carnival activities in preparation of the grounds for a smooth take-off for Lawyer Kwasi Amofa–Agyemang, the independent candidate’s campaign.
Fuming with anger, during an interaction with one Yaw Debrah a.k.a Zito, former polling station chairman of Poano, and, another, Seth Amoako, also a former polling station chairman at Dominase in the Bekwai Constituency, they said, “We are waiting for the President, Nana Akufo Addo, to come and raise the hands of Joe Osei Owusu for us to vote for him….we shall show him himself”
Seth Amoako, who has apparently joined the independent candidate’s campaign team, has also sent a strong warning, daring the Ashanti Regional Executives to interfere with the affairs of the internal politics of Bekwai and the consequences of the electoral outcomes will be there for all to see.
Their words were corroborated by several people in the Constituency who John Afranie, Mnews correspondent in the Ashanti Region, interacted with.
“We have resolved to vote for the Independent Candidate, Lawyer Kwasi Amofa-Agyeman, but not the current First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joe Osei Owusu. We stand by our decision and we are not going back on it”.
Yaw Debrah also indicated that the NPP Executives’ claims that the Party’s Constitution had been amended to expel forever any member of the Party who would go independent is false. He challenged the Executives to show the supposed amendment and when it was made.
He stressed the resolve of the Bekwai constituents not to vote for the current MP, adding that not even the President’s intervention will change their minds, and that should the independent candidate be stopped from contesting the December 7, 2020 Parliamentary Elections then they will not participate in the voting exercise at all.
This threat should it come to pass, an analyst said, will mean about 40,000 vote loss to the aspiring President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo at the December 7, 2020 polls.
Mnews scouts have underscored Zito’s claims, saying people in Ofoase Kokoben, Kokofu, Dominase, Dodoma, all the villages and towns surrounding Bekwai and even some parts of the Bekwai township itself, are poised to vote massively for Lawyer Akwasi Amofa-Agyeman.
However, they will remain in their homes on the day of voting should the independent candidate be blocked from participating in the December Parliamentary Elections.
Loss of interest in Osei Owusu’s parliamentary candidacy in Bekwai has dipped to all low levels due to reasons like: lack of interaction with the people; unfulfillment of promises; divide and rule style of leadership, breaking up the front of the NPP Executives in the Constituency and derogatory reference to people from the towns and villages surrounding Bekwai as “villagers”, among others.
The groundswell of disaffection and threats of rebellion against the continuation of Joe Osei Owusu’s parliamentary leadership in the Bekwai Constituency is so palpable that it is only an ostrich that will opt to bury its head in the face of this “danger”, Mnews can attest.
Other constituencies in the Ashanti Region that are likely to be rocked by the independent candidacy issue, Mnews has gathered, are: the Suame Constituency, to be contested by one George Prempeh; the Atiwa Nwabiagya Constituency, by a woman; the Subin Constituency and the Asokwa Constituency by two other people.
Source: Sedi Bansah and Todd Kwadwo Darko/Mnews
