Angry NPP supporters lock up Subin party office over polling station elections

The Subin constituency office of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kumasi has been locked up by some disgruntled members over following accusations of bias over the polling station executives election.

The agitated members claim that some party members who picked forms to contest for various positions in the party at the polling station level have been disqualified.

They further accused their  MP Eugene Boakye Antwi of circumventing the electoral rules to favour himself and his assigns, a situation they have vowed to resist.

Clad in red bands, the disgruntled members marched to the party office and locked it up as they chanted war songs.

One of the members said: “Two years ago we took our MP to court on a similar issue when he fraudulently suspended us from the party, which we won. This same MP wants to take revenge on us this time. A chunk of us have been disqualified and we see this as an attempt to frustrate the electoral process.”

“This is unacceptable. The MP, Eugene Boakye Antwi is running the party like the era of Nebuchadnezzar and today’s Putin. I am a card-bearing member of this party and I was told I don’t qualify. In some instances, the vetting committee used E-levy to disqualify us and this tells us the MP is using the divide and rule approach to make his way and we will resist it,” another said.

The members are calling on the top hierarchy to resolve the issue to avert any tensions.

With the mass agitations and lawsuits within the NPP in the Ashanti Region, political watchers have said the development could spell doom for the party as it seeks to organize its base.