NPP PARLIAMENTARY PRIMARIES

        A chartered accountant who has expressed desire to contest the Manso Adubia parliamentary seat in the Ashanti Region on the ticket of the NPP, Dr. Osei Kofi Afoakwa has urged the leadership of the party not to put any limitations on who should qualify to contest in the parliamentary primaries.

 He warned that proposals by the National Executive Council of the party as regards the conduct of its parliamentary primaries would undermine the fielding of credible parliamentary candidates to represent the party in the 2016 general elections and in turn reducing the number of votes the NPP will obtain in the same elections. Dr. Afoakwa was speaking to GBC’s Garden City Radio after handing over a 16 bed solar powered medical ward to the Manso Adubia Health Centre. The facility was provided by him at a cost of 80 thousand Ghana Cedis. Dr. Afoakwa has also provided the Manso Odaho community, his home town, with a 14-seater KVIP.

 According to Dr. Afoakwa, sections of the proposal such as female parliamentary aspirants not be contested by male candidates and f the filing and development fees to be paid by aspirants will discourage many interested people from contesting. He therefore appealed to national, regional and constituency executives of the party to reconsider the proposals in the interest of party unity.