[ 2016-11-10 ]

Nii Lante Vanderpuye beats up NPP parliamentary candidate
The Parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic
Party for the Odododiodioo constituency, Nii Lante
Bannerman has accused incumbent Nii Lantey
Vanderpuye of punching him twice at Jamestown.

Speaking on Accra based Citi Fm, the NPP
Parliamentary candidate said he launched his
campaign yesterday in the constituency while the
NDC also had a rally at Okaishie after which they
had a procession when a group of people started
hurling stones and bottles at them.

According to the NPP parliamentary aspirant,he met
Nii Lantey Vanderpuye this morning at Jamestown
where he was assaulted.

“Nii Lante Vanderpuye punched me twice in the
full glare of everyone at James Town
When Vanderpuye attacked me he had about 20 thugs
with him,” he added.

Asked why he did not report the matter to the
Police, he replied that he has lodged more than 20
complaints at the Police station but nothing has
been done about the it.

The Odododiodioo constituency a predominantly NDC
seat is a volatile area where the NPP is trying to
snatch away from the grasp of the NDC.

It is one of the country’s political
thermometers because of its cosmopolitan nature,
the Odododiodoo Constituency, from results of
parliamentary elections since 1992, has an
interesting record. With the exception of 2004,
any party that won the Odododiodoo seat sent his
presidential candidate to the Castle or Flagstaff
House.

Since 1996, the elections in the constituency have
been a two-horse race between the ruling NDC and
NPP. This year’s does not appear to be
different, as Nii Lante Vanderpuye, the incumbent
MP and Nii Lantey Bannerman, the NPP candidate,
are the clear favourites.

Since the inception of the Fourth Republic, all
other parties that took part in elections in this
constituency — the Convention People’s Party
(CPP), People’s National Convention (PNC),
Progressive People’s Party (PPP), National
Reform Party (NRP), Democratic Freedom Party (DFP)
and the National Convention Party (NCP) — just
added to the numbers. They made little impact.

If Odododiodoo is a mouthful, so are the local
politics.With bubbling commercial centres,
including 31st December, Makola No. 2, Kantamanto
and Agblogloshie markets, deep in its belly, the
coastal constituency has a history of heavy
turnout during elections.

Source - kapital971.com

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