Anthony Namoo
The Upper East Regional Office of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has commissioned a committee to investigate the cause of the party’s inability to retain the three parliamentary seats it occupied in the just ended parliamentary elections.
The party in the region had three parliamentary seats in 2016 in the Upper East Region and projected to win four more in the 2020 election to occupy a total of 7 seats in a region that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) referred to as its stronghold.
After this year’s election, the NPP lost the Navrongo Central, Tempane and Zebilla seats and rather won the Binduri seat, which is the only seat the NPP has in the Upper East Region.
Even before the committee comes out with its findings, the Upper East Regional Chairman of the NPP, Anthony Namoo, has told the ‘DAILY GUIDE’ that the NDC embarked on a last-minute tribal campaign as they brought up their all-time false propaganda that the NPP was an Akan party and did not like Northerners.
“The NDC is fond of doing this; we have always said the NPP is a national party with representations from all regions and tribes. It is not affiliated to any one tribe or region and yet the NDC will always bring up this false propaganda and incite the people of the region against Ashantis.
According to him, the votes in the Tempane Constituency for example were cast largely on sentiment reasons and not on performance; adding, “…our opponents exploited people’s sentiments; the voting did not go according to the usual trend where people considered the development a government or an MP had attracted to the area. NDC is not doing the region well at all.”
Mr. Namoo said the regional executives did what was expected of them and but for the last-minute tribal politics by the NDC, the NPP would have achieved its target for the region.
“Under our tenure, all structures of the party were functioning and worked hard during the campaign. We have a functioning regional office with state-of-the-art equipment for proper administrative work, record keeping and analysis. I don’t think we have failed, other unusual things worked against the party,” he said.
FROM: Ebo Bruce-Quansah, Bolgatanga