The agitations marring the hearing of the fact-finding committee of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) took a very nasty turn on Wednesday, as its sitting at Kawudi in Accra reportedly ended up with a gunshot.
A supporter of former Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayawaso North, Dr. Mustapha Ahmed, was reported to have fired the warning shot, causing undue panic among members of the committee and supporters of the party.
DAILY GUIDE gathered that Prof. Kwesi Botchwey’s committee, which has been traveling across the country to sample views of supporters and executives of the NDC on why the party lost the 2016 elections in such a shameful manner, met four constituency executive members and party supporters at Kawukudi in Accra last week.
The committee visited the East Ayawaso Constituency in Accra to receive the concerns of four constituencies namely: Ayawaso East, Ayawaso North, Ayawaso Central and Ayawaso West Wuogon.
Constituency executives and enthusiastic supporters reportedly locked horns over who should be allowed to speak to the committee, while a large number of party faithful stood outside the Alhaji Moro Baba Issah’s Hall due to the lack of space inside the Hall.
They reportedly could not get in to express their views on what they thought led to the party’s embarrassing electoral defeat.
Some had expressed their disappointment about the former government appointees, accusing them of being greedy and selfish.
Confusion was said to have broken out during the hearing when some members of the party from Ayawaso North Constituency accused their former MP and one-time Minister of Youth and Sports, Dr. Mustapha Ahmed, of creating divisions in the constituency and contributing to the downfall of the party in the last general election.
The allegation, according to reports, did not go down well with some supporters of the former minister, resulting in hot exchanges that allegedly led to the firing of a gunshot by a supposed supporter of Dr. Ahmed – known in the area as Chinese.
Dr. Ahmed had also reportedly dismissed the allegations leveled against him, with his supporters saying that former President Mahama had ‘sent’ his late uncle’s son, Yusif Jajah, to lead the constituency, leading to his (Dr. Ahmed’s) defeat in the party’s primary in the run-up to the 2016 elections.
Attempts to speak to Dr Ahmed on the issue failed.
The NDC has formed a 13-member committee to investigate the cause of the party’s historic defeat in the December 7, 2016 polls.
The committee was formed by the NDC’s Functional Executive Committee (NEC) and approved by its Council of Elders.
But members of the committee have been met with hostility from angry supporters of the opposition party nationwide, some of who believe the party lost the election due to greed, and as such there is no need for any fact-finding exercise.
Source: Daily Guide
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Daily Guide do not draw our attentions from Delta Forces at all. Let us not forget about that incident in Kumasi at all. Do you think what Kennedy Agyapong and Chairman Wontumi are doing is good ?
Daily Guild why are not reporting ongoing matters about Delta Force and Invisible Force?
so its only daily guide that was at the meeting place that wednesday and no other media house was there to report it too? They just want to divert attention from the delta force issue thats all. Poor journalism and its only Peace FM that will report this stuuuupid thing on their web site for the whole world to see. Am disappointed in the editor of this site.
who are the terrorist now? let us condemn evil irrespective of who is involved
Wednesday, there was gunshot, nobody heard of it until today, Saturday, what do Peacefm take us for. Because delta force and invisible force is destroying the image of Peacefm government, they need to manufacture stories about the NDC. If indeed there was any gunshot, by Wednesday evening all radio stations would have broadcast this news. You people should find ways of dealing with your delta and invisible forces and leave NDC out of your ***barred word***.
LOOKING AT THE CONDITION IN NDC TODAY, NOBODY EITHER THAN KWESI BOTWE CAN SAVE NDC. IF NDC REALLY WANT TO SAVE THE PARTY NOBODY BUT KWESI BOTWE SHOULD BECOME THE CANDIDATE TO CONTEST THE PRESIDENCY FOR THE PARTY IN THE NEXT ELECTION. HE WILL BRING THE PARTY TOGETHER EVEN IF HE DOES NOT WIN.