Independent candidate pops up at Subin ; as party hierarchy fails to resolve emerging issues

Reports from the grapevine in Subin Constituency indicate that Mr. Frank Kwadwo Duodu is buckling his shoes to join the Subin parliamentary election as an independent candidate.

His bid to contest the Subin parliamentary seat is explained in his disqualification in the recent primaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) without any tangible reason.

Duodu’s unexplained disqualification came at a time he had been vetted and cleared by the party’s Vetting Committee.

The party is yet to assign reasons for Mr. Duodu’s purported disqualification from the NPP primaries last June 20, 2020, despite various petitions to that effect.

Duodu confided in The Chronicle at the time of filing this report that he had not received any form of communication regarding reasons for his disqualification.

According to him, about 77 telephone calls to the Regional First Vice Chairman of the party, Mr. Kwabena Nsenkyire, went unanswered over the period, after several attempts to get the Regional Chairman to speak on the issue.

Mr. Duodu said his bid to go solo in the impending elections follows calls on him to represent their interests, since the party was disorganised in the constituency, as a result of which some delegates had dragged the Regional Chairman and the Member of Parliament to court.

The delegates in Subin are not happy with the interference in the running of the party, and the failure of the national executives to stamp their authority

Meanwhile, Mr. Joseph Boakye Danquah, a parliamentary aspirant, who is said to have failed in his bid at the disputed NPP June 20, 2020 primary at Subin, said he would contest the seat in the event there is a rerun of the primary.

51 applicants are seeking a declaration that the June 20 NPP polls, by which the sitting MP claims to have been re-elected by 485 votes, was illegal, unlawful, and wrongful, and should be declared null and void.

The 51 delegates have protested against the primary at Subin and are seeking a declaration by a Kumasi court that the June 20 NPP polls was illegal, unlawful and wrongful and should be declared null and void.

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