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General news for Saturday 19 September 2020
Source: My GH news
2020-09-19
The vehicles had the photo of the president and standard bearer of the PNP for the 2020 elections
Residents of Patakro, in the northern Adansi district of the Ashanti region, were caught on video booing and chasing a convoy of party-branded vehicles belonging to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the district. election of Fomena, Philip Ofori Asante.
The vehicles had the photo of the PNP president and standard-bearer for the 2020 elections, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, visibly affixed to them; a police patrol vehicle escorting them was not spared.
Some of the participants were seen wielding brooms sweeping the dust behind the convoy to symbolize in typical Ashanti fashion that they are not welcome and never want to be seen in the city.
Patakro is the hometown of the current member of parliament (MP) from the Fomena constituency, Andrew Amoako Asiamah, who entered parliament with the PNP candidacy, but would be participating in the 2020 elections as an independent candidate after a long rivalry with the constituency of the party. President, Akwasi Anti Asamoah and other executives of the constituency.
Independent checks from MyNewsGh.com suggest that the electorate in the Fomena constituency is very divided over who to vote for in the upcoming parliamentary elections; Some say that the party chairman, Akwasi Anti, has become a lord in his own right and, through dubious means, has ensured that all MPs since 2008 have a single term.
Andrews Amoako Asiamah is the third deputy in a position that would not compete on the PNP ballot for a second term in the Fomena constituency since 2008; but this time, he has massive support from his hometown of Patakro, Akrokerri and other inland villages.
Philip Ofori Asante, who became the parliamentary candidate on his first unopposed attempt according to our controls, is popular in the larger cities; He enjoys the goodwill of neutrals, but aggrieved voters say the conduct of his cousin, Akwasi Anti Asamoah, the constituency president, could hamper his chances of entering parliament.
This comes at a time when the ruling PNP has promised to annex all forty-seven (47) seats in the Ashanti region in what it calls Operation 47/47.
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