A Fast Track High Court in Kumasi has ordered the National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Peter Mac-Manu, to appoint a three-member interim committee to administer the day-today activities of the Atwima Nwabiagya Constituency of the party.
The court, presided over by Mr Justice Kwame Ansu-Gyeabour, further directed Mr Mac-Manu to personally handle matters pertaining to the nomination of a member of parliament for the constituency.
“I order that with regard to the nomination for a member of parliament for the constituency, all matters pertaining to the said nomination should be handled by the national chairman of the New Patriotic Party personally,” the court said.
On the composition of the interim committee, the court again ordered that no member of the present regional executive committee of the party in Kumasi should be appointed to serve on it.
These orders were made when the matter in which Nana Kofi Owusu and members of his executive were challenging their purported removal as constituency executive and also the legality of a new executive purportedly elected to replace them, came up for hearing at the court.
For some time now, the Atwima Nwabiagya Constituency NPP has not seen peace as it faces a leadership crisis, much to the discomfort of party members and sympathisers.
This leadership crisis prevented some representatives of the constituency from voting at the party's national delegates congress that elected Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the party's flag bearer.
In that same constituency, some assembly members were deter¬mined to pass a vote of no confidence in the District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Thomas Ofori Donkor, for alleged corrupt practices. He however denies any wrongdoing.
Consequently, when the assembly met last week Tuesday at Nkawie to initiate the charges against the DCE, he failed to turn up.
Another meeting has, however, been scheduled for Tuesday and it is expected that the DCE would be present for proceedings to go on smoothly.
Source: Daily Graphic
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