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Sissala Constituencies deplore NPP alliance with two
Sissala PNC MPs
Tumu, Feb.23, Ghanadot/GNA - The Sissala East
and West Constituencies' branches of the New Patriotic Party
in the Upper West Region have urged the National Executive
of the Party to open nominations for Parliamentary Primaries
to be held in the two constituencies in order to relieve the
party supporters of frustrations and disappointment.
They warned that if the National Executive and the
Presidential Candidate of the Party decide to hand over the
two constituencies to the People's National Convention as
was done to the Sissala East constituency in 2004, they
would consider any options opened to them.
The Executives of the two constituencies made the call in a
joint news conference held at Tumu in the Sissala East
District on Friday, which had the executives, polling
station chairmen and a large number of party supporters from
the two constituencies in attendance.
Mr. Issahaku Tahiru, Sissala East chairman, Mr Bukari
Darimani, Sissala West chairman and Mr Issahaku Amidu
Chinnia and Mr. Alhassan Nyali Monto, Sissala East and West
secretaries respectively signed the statement that was read
at the conference.
In the 2004 general elections, they said the NPP did not
achieve the result that they expected from the local
alliance with PNC in the Sissala East constituency and there
was no justification for it to be repeated this year.
Producing the election results to back their claims, they
said while the NPP members voted for the PNC Parliamentary
candidate, he instead of reciprocating by backing President
Kufuor rather campaigned for his Presidential candidate and
carried all PNC supporters along to vote for their
candidate.
"It is not true that if the NPP field candidates in the two
constituencies, NDC will win the seat. This is cheap
propaganda being speculated by the PNC Members of Parliament
and their supporters to stay in office", they stated.
The Party executives said the two PNC MPs had no working
relationship with the NPP at the constituency level and this
had prompted party members to constantly call for election
of MPs who are NPP and could relate directly with them to
facilitate development.
They said the electorate in the area had seen and
appreciated what the NPP government had done for them after
seven years in office and therefore there was no doubt that
the Party could defeat the NDC in the two constituencies.
"The assertion by people outside the two constituencies that
the PNC controls the area is false since electoral victories
in the Sissala area are based on issues and not the person
that seeks to lead them".
There was no guarantee that if the NPP did not contest the
Parliamentary election, the PNC MPs could retain the seats
since their performance over the last four years had been
abysmal, they observed.
"Many members of the PNC here have lost confidence in them
and have defected to the NPP and we will challenge anybody
who doubts our claim to carry out a political research in
the two constituencies to ascertain the truth".
The two constituencies pointed out that the Presidential
candidate of their Party had consistently stated that the
Party would contest every political space in Ghana and they
thought that was the best way forward for the Party.
GNA
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