TARKWA NSUAEM CONSTITUENCY NPP MEMBERS DESERVE AN APOLOGY.

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TARKWA NSUAEM CONSTITUENCY NPP MEMBERS DESERVE AN APOLOGY
Our attention has been drawn to an audio recording from a health walk organized by the Hon Mireku Duker ( Member of parliament for Tarkwa Nsuaem constituency) in which an executive of the western regional NPP branch was loudly heard saying that the current MP is the flagbearer for the constituency for 2024 elections.
Barely a week ago , the National executive committee came out a timetable for the presidential and parliamentary elections. In the timetable the opening of nominations for constituencies with sitting MPs is on the 20th of December 2023 and the elections will be held on 24th February 2024.

It is therefore very disturbing that the western regional executive seems to have already chosen a winner for an election that has not been held yet.
There are over 1000 delegates in the constituency and it is up to them to choose a leader(s) for the constituency. It is therefore an insults to all these people if the flagbearer has been chosen already by the regional team even without consulting the delegates.
His statement is also an insult to the NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE who came up with the timeline for our internal elections.
The imposition of candidates on the delegates is what made us lose so many seats in the 2020 elections and we were told that the new national executives will not repeat such a mistake.

OUR response to the western regional chairman ( executive body) is very simple,
a)When did the Tarkwa Nsuem delegates vote to elect or confirm Hon Mireku Duker as our leader for the 2024 elctions ?
b)Was he speaking on his own behalf or on behalf of his executives
c)As a regional chairman he may be part of the vetting committee. How sure are we that the committee will not disqualify all other candidates since by his pronouncement he has already chosen the winning candidate for us.
Hon mireku Duker is the most unpopular Npp parliamentary candidate in the history of TARKWA NSUEM.

In 2020 he almost made us lose a seat which has been a safe seat for decades for the NPP.

In 2020 , our Presidential candidate H.E Nana Addo Danquah, received 11,000 more votes than Hon mireku Duker.
Our parliamentary candidate won the elections with just 34.43 percent of vote caste and ONLY BY 98 VOTES ( ninety Eight) against his NDC competitor. This is a seat that NPP used to win with excess of 8,000 votes during the time of Hon. Gifty kusi.
Why does the regional executives want to impose such an unpopular candidate on us? It is suicidal and embarrassing and we will not tolerate this disregard for the laws and bye laws of our party and for democracy.
We wish to call on the regional chairman to apologise to all the delegates in Tarkwa Nsuem constituency and also to the National Executive committee of our dear party.
We also wish to state categorical that it is the noble and civic responsible of delegates to select

flagbearers for the PRESIDENTIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY elections and no one must be seen to be interfering in this noble exercise.
IF HON MIREKU DUKER IS REALLY THE PERSON THAT THE Delegates WANT AS THEIR LEADER , they will decide on the 24th of febuary 2023.
We shall resist all attempts to IMPOSE
CANDIDATES on us , especially when those candidates as so unpopular and seen as arrogant by the majority of people in the constituency,

CC:

• General secretary NPP
• NationalchairmanNPP
• Director legal affairs Directorate
• Chairman,westernregionalNPP
• All media houses.
  Signed
  Dr Joseph kofi Gyanteh
• Member NPP Tarkwa Nsuem