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A pressure group in the opposition New Patriotic Party(NPP) calling itself the National Youth Ambassadors(NYA) has petitioned the leadership of the party to restrained Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah-Agyei from contesting for MP for Akropong constituency in the name of NPP. NYA is a youth club in the country hoping to share the joy of victory 2016 with NPP. The petitioned further seek to redress on the issues of Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah-Adjei an aspiring Member of Parliament for Akropong Constituency in the name of the New Patriotic Party. According to the group, their political research team has unearthed an abnormality in the Akropong constituency that disqualifies Nana Ama Dokua from contesting for MP in the said constituency come 2016 elections. Per the constitutional provision (ie. Article 94 clause b of the 1992 constitution) that states the qualification of candidates for parliamentary election, madam Ama Dokua cannot contest to be a member of parliament for Akropong since she does not hail from the said constituency neither have she been a resident for the time spin to qualify her. The petition was signed by Fred Appiah, National Chairman and Prience Kofi Owusu, Vice Chairman and Head of Political Research Team. The petition further reads that, the NDC by chance have this information and is planning of disqualifying her close to 2016 elections, it is therefore prudent on the part of NPP to quickly make amends to this error to retain that seat for the NPP. They disclosed that, it is an open secret that the NPP partly accepted defeat to the NDC in election 2012 because they had majority in parliament than we did, even though we won the election, we cannot repeat this same mistake, of what benefit would it be if we concentrate on the presidential candidate win for him and lose more sits in parliament? The group has pledged to do their possible best as youth of this country to help bring the New Patriotic Party back to power come 2016 . The group has sent an alert note to the NATIONAL SECRETARIAT of NPP to act with a week to solve this problem before they take the legal steps to solve it their own way as citizens and youths of this country. Meanwhile, investigations by your Authoritative the Trust Newspaper revealed that, Nana Ama Dokua-Asiamah Agyei was disqualified during the vetting by the NPP. The Trust Newspaper has it that, due to the intervention of Mr Paul Afoko and Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, National Chairman and National Secretary respectively facilitated the reinstatement of Nana Ama Dokua -Asiama Agyei all because the Akropong constituency is the hometown of Nana Akuffo Addo, the Flagbearer of the Party. The group sense danger that come 2016, the NDC will stage a court action against the Parliamentary candidate and eventually leads to her disqualification and win the seat from the NPP by NDC so that Paul Afoko and Kwabena Agyei Agyapong will get a point that even the hometown of Nana Akuffo Addo does not like him to become President. Investigations further revealed that, Nana Ama Dokua-Asiamah Agyei during the 2008 elections was having on her voter ID that she is 28years but during the current biometric registration ID she is have it that she is 32years of age. Sources revealed that, during the biometric registration exercise, Nana Ama Dokua-Asiamah Agyei was not in the country and couldn't registered during the exercise but has in her possession a voter ID. Sources closed to the Trust Newspaper revealed that, this prompted the NYA and they contacted their Lawyer, Thomas Aubbyn Law Consult of Asomdwoe Chambers and write to the Electoral Commission (EC) dated 2nd July 2015 together with her voter ID numbers 26500157(FJ) & 2902400023 to verify if the records of Nana Ama Dokua-Asiamah Agyei can be found in their register. But the EC later wrote to them on 9th July, 2015, a letter received from the EC signed by the Director of Human Resources,Mr Muhammed K. Atoquaye on behalf of the Chairman revealed that both voter ID numbers could not be traced in their records or data. The Trust Newspaper has it that, during the just ended District level elections, Nana Ama Dokua-Asiamah Agyei travelled outside the country to avoid voting since her information is not in the EC register. Stay tune for the full reaction of Akropong Constituency NPP Organizer,Mr Appiah over the allegation in the next week edition.