NPP Cagey Over Nkawkaw Seat: Confusion Hits, Party Mulls As MP’s Ill Health Leaves Constituency Shaky

The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) ‘It Is Possible’ swansong appears billed for ditch unless some rescue effort is timeously scooped to prevent the hungry National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, Frederick Obeng Somuah, from snatching the sinking grounds that threaten the constituency and the ancillary campaign ambitions of the presidential candidate, Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia.

Unassailable reports reaching The Inquirer from our very reliable scouts which have been corroborated by the region and sources at the NPP national headquarters reveal, that the NPP candidate, Obo-born Joseph Frempong, 55, health is receding in what medical sources indicated could be a mal-functioning of part of his organs.

Efforts to access remedies have since failed, considering the space available for a vibrant campaign that would redeem the fortunes of the MP aspirant in a veritable NPP stronghold.

Worried constituency executives, together with regional party chiefs, and acting more Catholic than the Pope in their faith for a miracle barely four months into the crucial elections, have been dithering over the grave electoral permutations.

Intriguingly, the embattled MP aspirant, instead of throwing in the towel for the constituency, region and national headquarters to find a swift replacement continue to hold on, vacating the campaign turf to the freewheeling NDC candidate.

As months and weeks turn into days and hours, the party chiefs, glum-aced, looks on while NPP sympathisers wring their hands in frustration.

The NPP leadership at higher echelons of the party have not shown indication to conduct a process to replace him or allow another person to fill in.

Not only are traditional and religious segments of opinion leaders in the constituency worried about the lack of excitement on the terrain for them to make informed choices, the youth who make the political space tick in campaign seasons are expressing anguish, even anger, at the lack of leadership being manifest by the NPP leadership in the strategic Nkawkaw constituency in the Eastern region.

The NPP national campaign team had not positively reacted by the time The Inquirer went to bed, nor had the corner of the National Research Team showed to had identified the challenge and recommended appropriate remedies.

As for the constituency communication team, The Inquirer sources say they are so embarrassed over the issue that the decision among them is simply to be evasive in the face of the bare facts.

Again, not even the National Organiser and National Youth Organiser have shown up to grant solid assurances about an immediate solution, while the NDC candidate, ensconced on the space and gallops confidently.

During the last 2020 presidential elections, the role of party leaders were questioned when it came to light that frontline campaign chiefs had little strategies effectively developed to touch the grounds, leaving the flagbearer to fight on his own steam, with most of the MPs relying on the flagbearer to rub his image and achievements on them.

The result was that the NPP ceded as much as 500,000 votes to the NDC who would latch on to the yeoman’s achievement to file an election Petition to assuage the lamentations of their angry supporters.

When The Inquirer scouts on the grounds spoke with the Eastern regional chairman, Jeff Konadu, he confirmed the Nkawkaw MP indeed has been under the weather for some time now but he is in his recovery stage.

He debunked rumours that his logistics were not given to him when he visited the eastern regional office to pick his verification form.

He said vehicle and other things for the constituency have been released to him.

Chairman Konadu said the party executives would take decision for an alternative if his condition deteriorates such that he is unable him to do active campaign.

Source:inquirernewsroom.com