DAILY GUIDE has gathered that but for the timely intervention of the Bolgatanga police, the Upper East Regional Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jerry Asamani, would have been beaten to a pulp by some angry party activists and supporters yesterday.
Confusion reportedly broke out when news reached party members that a meeting was taking place at the Azunsolum Guest House in Bolga without the knowledge of the regional officers, leading to a scuffle at the entrance of the hotel.
Eyewitnesses said the regional organiser was accused of secretly organising a meeting involving some regional executives, the National Chairman, Paul Afoko and General Secretary Kwabena Agyepong, without the knowledge of the Regional Chairman, Adams Mahama and other executives.
When contacted, the regional chairman reluctantly said there was no problem.
For many observers, the national chairman meeting party members shouldn’t have given rise to the kind of anger the supposed meeting had brought about. The main issue, according to them, was the sidelining of the regional heads of the party at a time the two national officers had been accused of running a two-man show.
At the time of filing this report, the police had blocked the entrance to the Azunsolum Guest House.
Jerry Asamani, who sustained some injuries from the beating he received from party members, was still inside the guest house while the police were looking for a way of taking him out for treatment.
As at 6pm, Paul Afoko and Kwabena Agyepong had not arrived at the Guest House for the supposed meeting with the selected executives of the party.
DAILY GUIDE also gathered that there were plans to stone the national chairman and the general secretary for sidestepping the regional executives, if the two had appeared at the guest house.
This paper further leant that the two national officers’ regional tours are not known to other members of the national executives.
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