The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has stated that it would take action after it receives a detailed report from its regional representative, the Electoral Commission, and the Ghana Police Service over the electoral violence that transpired in Yendi during the party’s parliamentary primary over the weekend.
The counting procedure for the party’s parliamentary election on January 27, 2024, was hampered due to stolen ballot suspicions.
The election, between the incumbent Yendi MP, Farouk Aliu Mahama, and the Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans station (MASLOC), Hajia Abibata Shanni Mahama Zakariah, became violent during the counting process at the Yendi polling station.
The General Secretary of the NPP, Justin Kodua Frimpong, spoke in an interview with Umaru Sanda Amadu on Eyewitness News on Citi FM and assured that the party’s national executive committee will meet to deliberate once they receive the reports from the three stakeholders mentioned above.
“As I speak to you, we are yet to receive a formal report from our representative who went to the region, the Electoral Commission, and the Ghana Police Service, and when we get all these reports, the national executive committee will meet to deliberate on them and take a decision on Yendi. For whatever transpired there, once we get the report, the party will take a decision on it.”
“Several things happened at Yendi so unless we have the full facts, it will be difficult to comment on any action,” Kodua Frimpong further told Umaru Sanda Amadu.
Some executives of the NPP, despite the violence and disruption, went ahead to declare the incumbent Yendi MP, Farouk Aliu Mahama, as the parliamentary candidate-elect, which the Electoral Commission disassociated itself from.
