Tension is brewing in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese constituency in the Central Region over a purported plot to disqualify an aspirant who has expressed interest in contesting the Parliamentary Seat on the thicket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Information gathered by this paper is that, the leadership of the party in the Region as well as the Constituency are ganging up against a particular aspirant; and that they are trying all they could to ensure that he is disqualified from contesting the constituency primaries.
Interestingly, the chiefs and people of Abura are solidly behind the said aspirant and hence has expressed anger at the leadership of the party for trying to prevent a candidate from Abura to contest, in order to let the sitting MP win.
This development, according to the chiefs has the tendency of bringing chaos in the constituency.
It has been established that Abura-Asebu-Kwamankse has 261 communities in totality with Abura alone having 216 out of the 261.
Meanwhile, almost all the Members of Parliament (MPs) who have been elected from both the NPP and NDC side in the constituency are from Asebu.
This makes the other two traditional areas feel neglected and having an aspirant from Asebu to contest the 2024 elections has come to the people as a great news, making them declare their support and readiness to go all out and campaign for the Asebu candidate and the NPP.
But snippets of information being received has shown that, this could only be a mirage as the leadership of the party, allegedly led by its Regional Chairman, are allegedly conniving with the sitting MP, to hatch the plot to disqualify the said aspirant in other to retain him (the sitting MP) during the primaries.
When this reporter reached out to NPP Chairman for Central Region, Robert Kutin Jnr, for his take on the matter, he declined to make any comment, insisting that he doesn’t discuss politics on phone.
Stay tuned!