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UW/R NPP Chairman warns against endorsing Independent
candidates
Loggu (UW), Feb. 25, Ghanadot/GNA - Alhaji Abdul-Rahman
Abubakari, Upper West Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic
Party on Sunday, warned that any supporter of the Party, who
endorses or uses the party's resources to facilitate the
political fortunes of any Independent candidate, would face
severe sanctions.
The Party, he said has never endorsed "skirt and blouse
voting" and therefore any member, who wanted to contest as
an Independent parliamentary candidate should do so in his
own merit and count himself out of the NPP family.
He gave the warning when he addressed a meeting of party
executives, elders and supporters drawn from communities
within the Loggu Electoral Area at Loggu in the Wa East
District of the Upper West Region.
The Regional NPP Chairman and his entourage made up of the
Regional Organizer, Mr Abraham Bakpanla, Mr Mumuni Salia, Wa
East Constituency Youth Organizer and Mr Mohammed Abudulai
Sidick, a leading Party functionary, were in the area to
“seal some cracks” that had developed within the party's
front in the constituency.
The Wa East Constituency is the only seat being held in
Parliament by the NPP in the Upper West Region's.
He said the NPP wanted to retain the Wa East seat alongside
six others it had target to wrest from the NDC, but could
only achieve that ambition if supporters shelved their
personal or sectional interests and went for the larger
interests of the Party.
"The Party does not belong to any Regional Chairman, sitting
MP or District Chief Executive. It belongs to all of us and
we all have a stake in it", he emphasized.
Alhaji Abubakari advised them not to give ammunition to
their political opponents through bickering, which would
later be used against them long after their differences had
been resolved.
"A scorpion will enter your room to sting you when there is
a crack in its wall", he stated.
He urged NPP supporters in the region to respect all those
who were joining the party from other political
organizations as defectors, reminding them that the votes of
NPP supporters alone could not give them the victory they
were hoping to achieve in the region.
GNA
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