In March 2022, over one hundred disgruntled members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Fomena Constituency of the Ashanti Region demonstrated against the party’s leadership and threatened to defect to the opposition NDC over alleged preferential treatment of persons linked to the Independent MP for the area, Andrew Amoako Asiamah.
The angry NPP supporters who demonstrated played campaign songs of former President John Mahama as they stressed that they would not be voting for the NPP in the next general election.
The disappointed NPP members held placards with inscriptions such as “let the NPP constitution work, John Boadu and co, we will resist the imposition of Asiamah, No unopposed in Fomena, we will defend the NPP constitution among others.
In a bid to show their seriousness, the aggrieved protestors who threatened to defect to the NDC then painted the NPP Fomena Constituency office in NDC colours. They then pasted posters of former president John Mahama on the building.
The protestors vowed to resist attempts by the Independent Member of Parliament for the area, Andrew Amoako Asiamah, to be imposed on them in the next general elections.
They alleged that the leadership of the party had begun some machinations to favour supporters of the independent Member of Parliament as against those believed to be from other camps in the ongoing polling station elections.
A spokesperson for the aggrieved supporters of NPP in the Fomena Constituency, Emmanuel Domah, told Citi News their protest was a result of unfair treatment meted out to some party members by the party leadership.