Dr Prince Hamid Armah
Sixty-two NPP members and executives in Kwesimintsim have rushed to a High Court to place an interim injunction on their constituency’s ongoing polling station elections.
Their action stemmed from alleged calculated moves by the election committee to prevent some aspirants from contesting the election by allegedly hiding their nomination forms after vetting.
Reports indicate that not less than 15 filed nomination forms are said to be “missing”. The court is therefore being asked to order release of these forms before election continues.
March 17 has been fixed for sitting on the case which was filed on Tuesday March 1.
The Coordinator for Kwesimintsim Proper Electoral Area and leader of the group, Anthony Gyabin, said they want nothing but fair play, adding that they were were compelled to go to court due to failure by the regional executive body to respond to their complaints.
Fair play
In an interview with journalists, Mr Gyabin accused Dr Prince Hamid Armah, Member of Parliament for the area, of allegedly of being behind the whole deal to safeguard his position. He said moves by the election committee was primarily to retain incumbent polling station executives in Dr. Armah’s interest.
All positions being contested by aspirants whose forms are said to be missing, he said, had been declared unopposed.
Wondering why this should be the case, Mr Gyabin expressed fears that NPP would find it very difficult breaking the eight years governing cycle if party executives continued acting this way.
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