The ruling New Patriotic Party’s Kade Constituency office in the Eastern region was thrown into pandemonium after polling station forms were allegedly hoarded.
After being denied access to the polling station election forms, a large number of party members were trapped at the party’s office on Saturday.
The situation became so tense that an ally of the Member of Parliament allegedly assaulted one Kwasi Aboagye alias Aboma, and a henchman of the politician allegedly grabbed a revolver to fend off the enraged party members.
The restoration of law and order required the intervention of armed police from the Kade District Police command.
However, the party’s disgruntled members are still enraged, vowing to block what they call the MP’s and existing Constituency Executives’ attempt to give the forms to their “bootlickers and sycophants” ostensibly for political gain.
The party office was surreptitiously opened on Sunday morning at 6:00 a.m., according to Starr News, and the forms were shared with those suspected to be favorites of the MP and the existing executives, who were on the other side of the agitating members.
The uncertainty regarding polling station forms was not limited to Kade.
A similar incidence occurred in the north and south of New Juaben.
The NPP’s New Juaben North constituency office was in disarray Saturday morning after the party’s executives failed to launch nominations for polling station elections.
Over a hundred members of the party were left stuck inside the shuttered party headquarters, preventing them from picking up forms to run for polling station office.
Some of the enraged members said that the constituency executives and Member of Parliament Nana Adjei Boateng have been doing this for years as part of a grand conspiracy.
Members of the party were outraged, and they demanded that the national Executives question one Simon Tawiah, who is in charge of the election, about why he purposefully shut the party office when nominations opened today.
The stranded members also urged the party’s General Secretary, John Boadu, to intervene quickly to prevent conflicts, stating that they will fight any attempt to prevent them from running for office.
They also threatened to halt the constituency’s polling station election if their issues were not addressed quickly.
