[ 2016-11-18 ]

NDC Defacing NPP Billboards In Madina
The call by peace loving people as well as the
National Peace Council or the electioneering
campaign to be conducted in a peaceful manner
seems to have fallen on the deaf ears of the
sitting Member of Parliament for Madina in the
Greater Accra Region.

This paper can report that the modes of
campaigning of the MP, Alhaji Amadu Sorogho
especially after losing the national Civic
Education Commission's parliamentary debate in the
area is fast brewing tension and becoming a source
of worry to many in the constituency.

One of his actions likely to bark fire in the not
too long days to come among the supporters of the
opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and that of
the supporters of the governing National
Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters in one of
Accra's most populous suburbs in the country...the
act of defacing the billboards of the NPP's
parliamentary candidate.

This paper last week visited the 'Atomic Junction
area of the constituency and along the sides of
the overhead bridge lay a huge billboard belonging
to Amadu Sorogho hosted on that of Alhaji Abubakar
Saddique Boniface's Banner, the NPP's candidate.

The huge billboard has the portrait of the MP and
that of president Mahama with the inscription 'JM
Toase; 4 more year, for JM , 4 more years for
Sorogho changing lives'.

The NPP's banner hosted with the in tension to
sell the ...of the NPP parliamentary candidate and
that of the flag bearer Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo with the bold headline "Mission Madina'
along the major street leading to the Atomic area
has been taken over by the MP.

However, this paper is reliably informed that NPP
supporters in the area are not happy about the
current developments by the MP and are also
regrouping to deface NDC posters.

The blatant disregard for the rules of fairness is
what has been exhibited by MP who is also the
Chairman of the Select Committee on Mines and
Energy in Parliament.

In the same vain last month, supporters of Alhaji
Amadu Sorogho rolled out same plot to shred his
main contender's posters.

Agents of the MP were seen defacing the posters of
Alhaji Abubakar Saddique Boniface.

When this paper visited the area it came to the
fore posters of the former Minister of Works and
Housing in the immediate past John Agyekum
Kufuour's administration were being defaced
particularly in the Madina-Welfare and its
environs in the constituency.

At the scene, the agents of MP have pasted the
sitting MP's posters on that of the NPP's
candidates in the said areas like Rawlings
Roundabout among others.

The incident this paper learnt was carefully
executed by the agents of the sitting MP, after he
struggled to marshal party supporters to his
campaign launch.

This paper can report that the MP and some of his
agents in the area have resorted to these inferior
tactics because the cares of the MP, who is a
former Board Chairman of the Ghana National Fire
Service under whose tenure uniforms were purchased
with condoms in them, are crumbling in the
constituency.

Information available to this paper has it that
some core NDC supporters in the area have resolved
to vote skirt and blouse; to vote for Alhaji
Abubarkar Saddique Boniface in the December 7,
polls.

This paper has been reliably informed that the MP
has over the years taken the constituents for
granted because he had not had a formidable
competitor int the race for the legislature since
he assumed office in 2004.

The Bawku born legislator out of frustration is
rolling out these plots to make his main
parliamentary race unpopular to his advantage even
though information on the ground suggest that he
has lost touch with the people of the
constituency.

This paper further learnt that some chief and
opinion leaders in the constituency have shown him
the exit, claiming he had taken the electorate of
the area for granted.

When this paper reached the NPP candidate to
comment on the latest developments in the area
over the defacing of his posters, he decline
comment directing the news team to go and see it
for themselves.

Attempts to the MP also proved futile as his cell
phone was dead at the time of filing the story.

More to come!

Source - The Ghanaian Observer

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