<<Print>>The much-touted district assembly elections might not take place as planned in the Ashanti region since a former official of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has threatened to drag the Electoral Commission (EC) to court soon.
Kwabena Nsenkyire, former First Vice Chairman of the NPP in the Ashanti region, who is also an ex-Assemblyman for Dichemso Electoral Area in Kumasi, stated that the EC had unjustifiably disqualified him from the polls.
He said the EC disqualified him over a campaign poster which had inscriptions that indicated that he was an ex-NPP First Vice chairman in the Ashanti region.
He said he has no knowledge of the said posters.
Nsenkyire, who had been the Assemblyman for Dichemso Electoral Area over the past 16 years, said he had informed his lawyers to make arrangement to take legal action against the EC.
He said he has been in Canada since April 2015 and stressed that he did not design the posters.
“I was away in Canada and I returned back to Ghana just last Thursday therefore I have no knowledge about the said posters but the EC says I have been disqualified,” Nsenkyire, who was angry, said on Nhyira FM.
“What annoys me the most is the fact that EC did not even give me the chance to make statement, they just handed me a disqualification letter which is very bad.”
The former Assemblyman argued that logically the EC should have given him the chance to explain himself, noting that he would not bow out of the race quietly.
“I have informed my lawyers and very soon you will hear from me,” he indicated, adding that it would be in the interest of the EC to reinstate him to avert a possible injunction being placed on the polls in the Ashanti region.
The ex-Assemblyman said as an experienced official, he knows that contestants in the district assembly elections had been banned from using political parties to campaign.
He stated that some people at the assembly were working behind the scene to get him out of the race because of his outspokenness.
Nsenkire, who refused to mention names, expressed readiness to continue to fight to take part in the elections, noting that the fiendish ploy by his detractors would not work.