Asawase Primaries: Give way; Muntaka can’t go unopposed – Aspirant’s camp warns Party

The Camp of Mubarak Masawudu, parliamentary aspirant in the Asawase Constituency has said they will resist all attempts by the Regional Executives to block their candidate from contesting Muntaka Mubarak, the sitting Member of Parliament.

Director in-charge of Operations for the Aspirant, Shafi Ibrahim told Kasapa 102.5 Fm they would still go ahead to file the so-called “invalid forms” obtained from the Regional office of the main opposition NDC, despite the Regional Executives intentions not to accept it.

“The administrative Secretary sold the forms to us at the Regional Office. We paid GHS 2000 cash to her. Kwame Zu is still denying that we’ve not picked forms because of their machinations to make Muntaka go unopposed in the primaries. But we the Asawase people will fight the plans to make the MP unopposed. We picked the forms in a legal way and we’ll push it for our candidate to contest,” he told Kasapa 102.5 FM.

He added the constituency executives of the party were deliberately trying to frustrate their candidate from contesting the incumbent MP, scheming to refuse him the chance to run for the contest based on his alleged suspension by the party.

Reacting to the development, the Regional Secretary for the NDC, Kwame Zu said the secretariat has no records of anybody picking forms aside the sitting MP, Muntaka Mubarak after the expiration of the deadline for picking forms.

“The Administrative Secretary has been relieved of her post immediately. She acted beyond bounds to issue forms to you[Masawudu camp] which is not part of her job description; it’s exclusively my job as the Regional Secretary to issue out forms and nobody else. As I speak to you there is no secretarial records of anybody picking forms. If you come to the regional Office to pick forms, it should be for a stated reasons why they were denied the forms at the constituency level.” he told Anopa Kasapa sit-in host  Akwasi Nsiah.

Tension is brewing in the Asawase Constituency as members of the opposition National Democratic Congress are divided following the emergence of a new person who is seeking to contest, Muntaka Mubarak, the sitting Member of Parliament, in the party’s internal elections.

Supporters of the prospective aspirant accused constituency executives of frustrating processes to allow him pick up nomination forms to contest the party’s parliamentary primaries.

The supporters have served notice they will resist attempts by the executives to disqualify Mr Masawudu from contesting the Asawase MP in the upcoming parliamentary primaries.