The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East Region has condemned its Constituency Chairman for Pusiga, Issaka Seidu for campaigning against the party’s flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
Issaka Seidu is seen in a video that has emerged on social media campaigning for the parliamentary candidate for the area, Hanan Aludiba Abdul-Wahab but against Dr. Bawumia.
In the about 3-minute video, the Constituency Chairman is particularly heard telling the gathering to vote the NPP parliamentary candidate and John Dramani Mahama of the NDC in the December polls.
He adds that they were only interested in getting the parliamentary candidate of the party elected and not the flagbearer, Dr. Bawumia.
But reacting to the pronouncements of the Constituency Chairman, Regional Communications Director of the NPP, Peter Ayinbisa described his utterances as reckless.
According to him, such comments have the tendency to derail the efforts of the party to win both the presidential and parliamentary elections in the area.
“It’s quite worrying that you would be working very hard to push the party and the parliamentary candidate to win both elections, only for a party chairman to be seen making such comments so his comments are quite detrimental to the efforts of the party,” he stated in an interview on State of Our Nation.
“I would describe that (comment) as reckless because it should not have come from the party chairman because he represents the face of the party in that constituency” .
Already, some members of the party have petitioned the party’s Regional Executive Committee demanding the sacking of both the Constituency Chairman and the parliamentary candidate.
They argued that the parliamentary candidate is an accomplice of a grand scheme to sabotage the campaign of the flagbearer and therefore, their demand for his removal, too.
Peter Ayinbisa confirmed that the party has received the petition and will forward it to its disciplinary committee for further action once it establishes identities of the petitioners.
He, however, believes that the petition should have been limited to the action of the Chairman and not rope in the parliamentary candidate.
He argued that there is no evidence to suggest that Hanan Abdul-Wahab supported such utterances and thus, he should not have been included in the petition.
He added that the parliamentary candidate is a close associate of Dr. Bawumia and will not support any campaign against his (Dr. Bawumia’s) candidature.
