The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe Abronye, has voiced serious concerns about the ongoing voting process in the Ejisu Constituency, where his wife is a contestant in the party’s parliamentary primary.
Abronye alleges collusion between the Electoral Commission and the constituency chairman, who is also part of the election committee, to unfairly influence support in favor of a specific candidate among the nine contenders.
In a video sighted on social media, Abronye said, “When it comes to elections, nobody knows elections like me. Every election starts with zonal areas. When you start with one electoral area, you must finish and go to the next electoral area. But they tilted the thing.
“This arrangement is bad, the constituency chairman who is part of the election committee, is following a particular candidate, he is the one who did the list with the EC. He has connived with the EC.”
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is currently conducting a parliamentary primary to select a candidate for the upcoming by-election in the Ejisu Constituency. This by-election was prompted by the unfortunate passing of the Member of Parliament for the constituency, John Kumah, on March 7, 2024.
All nine aspirants for the internal poll on April 13, 2024, were cleared by the vetting committee on April 6. They had submitted their forms to contest the NPP parliamentary primary for the Ejisu constituency when nominations opened on April 2, 2024.
The Electoral Commission (EC) has scheduled the by-election for April 30, 2024.