The District Chief Executive for Garu in the Upper East Region, Emmanuel Asore has hit back at individuals calling for his dismissal following the defeat of the party in the constituency in the December 7, 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Mr. Emmanuel Asore who was speaking on Dreamz Breakfast News explained that the New Patriotic Party should have won the elections since the opposition National Democratic Congress had two individuals contesting in the parliamentary election in the Garu constituency with one, a former MP going independent.
A group calling itself Coalition of Critical Thinkers who double as sympathizers of the governing New Patriotic Party in the Garu District, petitioned the office of the President demanding the removal of the District Chief Executive for the area over what they say is his decision to pitch himself against the progress of the party since he lost his bid to represent the party as a parliamentary candidate in the constituency.
According to the group led by its Convenor Andrew Atariwini, the DCE’s decision not to campaign for the president led to a drastic reduction in his votes.
But commenting on the issue, Mr. Asore said the elections should have been a clear victory for the NPP. Saying “This should have been a very clean election for us once we have two key persons in the NDC contesting; but it turned out not to be so. So the postmortem is what? What do we assign? We do not assign the reason that the DCE should have done magic. The DCE must have done magic to make the parliamentary candidate win. When indeed the NPP people that are so popular in the township, the candidate has run them down, insulted them in a video which every household has.
He continued “When we say let’s get down and beg, you say no and go to your own stronghold and slap someone and out of anger, you begin to tear people apart and you expect the DCE to change water into whine? That is not possible,” he fumed.
The NPP failed to annex the Garu constituency seat though election observers noted that a decision by a former NDC MP of the area Dominic Azumah Azimbe to go independent narrowed the chances of the NDC parliamentary candidate.
