The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Nanton Constituency, has suspended 34 members of the party for misconduct in the 2024 general elections.
The 34 suspended NPP members consist of polling station executives, electoral area coordinators, constituency executives among others.
A letter sighted by DAILY GUIDE and signed by the NPP Nanton Constituency Chairman, Abukari Inusah, indicated that on January 23, 2025, a meeting of the Council of Elders, Council of Patrons, and Constituency Executives unanimously adopted the decision to suspend the party members.
The letter further read, “I am writing to respectfully inform the National, Regional, and all party members that the following party members have been decisively suspended as members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) until further notice. This is in accordance with Article 3 Clause (7)(1) and Clause (8)(1) of the party’s 2017 Constitution, as amended with effect from February 6, 2025, due to undesirable findings against them by the party’s Disciplinary Committee and Constituency Executive Committee.”
According to Mr. Inusah, several other complaints were submitted to the party’s leadership by other party members accusing the suspended members of arrogantly violating the party’s constitution.
“Twenty-five party members petitioned leadership of the party, and this petition was carefully considered, and at the conclusion of the meeting, a resolution was adopted that established findings against these persons of acts of misbehaviour during and after the December 7, 2024 general elections,” he disclosed.
He revealed that the conclusions drawn from the petition filed against the suspended members included declaring support for National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate against the official elected parliamentary candidate of the party, joining the campaigns with impunity of the NDC parliamentary candidate, distributing items to voters on behalf of the NDC candidate, mounting road blocks on the way to polling centres on the election day, and asking prospective voters to vote for the NPP presidential candidate and the NDC parliamentary candidate, as well as refusing to work for the party in the just ended general elections.
“Therefore, all affected polling station executives, electoral area coordinators and constituency executives who refused to work for the party in the December 2024 general elections have been dully suspended indefinitely pending a Disciplinary Committee report on their future standing within the party,” the letter concluded.
FROM Eric Kombat, Nanton