[ 2016-11-15 ]

Pearl Akua Agyemang

NPP Sacks Independent Candidate
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has once again
expelled one of its former parliamentary aspirants
from the party with immediate effect.

Pearl Akua Agyeman, a graduate teacher, was an
aspirant of the party at the Kpone Katamanso
Constituency.

She lost the NPP’s parliamentary ticket for that
constituency in 2015 to Solomon Tetteh Appiah, a
computer technician.

She decided to go independent after her defeat,
provoking anger among the party’s executives in
the area.

In a dismissal letter signed by Nana Sipim, an
executive in the Kpone Katamanso Constituency, the
party explained that Ms Akua Agyeman was using the
name of the NPP’s flag bearer, Nana Akufo-Addo,
to run her campaign, even though she was
contesting against the party’s candidate.

“It has come to the notice of the constituency
Executive Committee of the NPP in the Kpone
Katamanso Constituency that you have filed and
been cleared to contest as independent
parliamentary candidate for the December 2016
general election,” the Kpone Katamanso
executives stated in the letter.

It continued, “It is regretted that the numerous
appeals to you to reconsider that intention have
come to no avail. Accordingly, you have been
dismissed from the party from the date of your
filing for the parliamentary election with the
electoral commission of Ghana.”

Her dismissal is said to be in accordance with
Article H(1) of the NPP’s constitution.

It will be recalled that Stephen Quaye, who lost
the NPP’s parliamentary primary at the Ledzokuku
Constituency, Teshie, to Dr. Okoe Boye on June 13,
2015, was also recently dismissed from the party
for going independent.

Source - Daily Guide

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