{"id":143111,"date":"2024-01-25T06:12:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T06:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/25\/agona-west-npp-primary-in-limbo\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T06:12:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T06:12:14","slug":"agona-west-npp-primary-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/25\/agona-west-npp-primary-in-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Agona West NPP primary in limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary hopeful in the Agona West constituency of the Central region, Joseph Afankwah, has filed an injunction against the primary on January 27, 2024.<\/p>\n

The injunction is to protest what he describes as unfair treatment, stemming from unresolved issues surrounding his suspension as the constituency Chairman.<\/p>\n

Mr Afankwah and Horace Ekow Ewusi, a former Central Regional Vice-Chairman, were suspended in 2020 over controversies surrounding some missing excavators.<\/p>\n

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Their suspension was later lifted after a meeting with party executives, which paved the way for Mr Ewusi to contest in the parliamentary primary in Cape Coast North.<\/p>\n

However, Kojo Addo as he is popularly known on Adom FM Burning Issues<\/strong> disclosed his vetting suffered a setback on January 4 as the Central Regional committee revisited his suspension.<\/p>\n

Despite his insistence that the issue had been resolved, the vetting committee said there was no official documentation to that effect.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the suspended members were granted amnesty after the 2020 election and the Regional Secretary has also confirmed that I am not under any suspension so I was given the greenlight to go ahead with my campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cSubsequently, I was mentioned as part of the disqualified aspirants in the General Secretary\u2019s interim report on the election,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Mr Afrankwah is therefore praying the court to impress on the party leadership to rectify the issue.<\/p>\n

Kojo Addo was in the race with four others including the incumbent MP, Cynthia Morrison, Ben Yamoah, Yawson Otoo, and Chris Arthur.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the party is yet to comment on the matter. <\/p>\n

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