Furious Bantama Constituents Blame Hon. Kokofu For 2012 Electoral Woes
As New Patriotic Party members of the Concerned Patriots of the Bantama Constituency, we wish to entreat our leaders to institute an enquiry into the underlisted issues; which if not investigated, would work against our electoral fortunes in 2016.
First on our list, we would implore the leadership of the party to investigate how the National Democratic Congress was able to secure close to 10000 votes in the Bantama Constituency during the 2012 Elections.
Before the 2012 general elections, most voters who were perceived to be NDC members were made to evacuate the Race Course area and they ended up moving to Moshe Zongo, Asuofia, Asawasi and neighbouring areas. However, it still turned out that the NDC as a party performed better in the Bantama Constituency by securing close to 10,000, a figure which remains mind boggling.
Looking at the magnitude of votes the NDC managed to gather particularly from the Race Course area, we as a group are being forced to give credence to the rumours making round that our current MP, Hon. Kokofu got compromised in his line of duty.
As a group, we strongly believe that our MP either slept on the job or in a way, got compromised by the NDC during the 2012 general election.
We therefore deem it appreciate for the leaders of our party to pick the matter up and institute an investigation into it of which we are ready to assist.
Aside this, we also realized that during the 2012 general elections, about 45 Polling Stations within the Bantama Constituency had their blank Pink sheets signed by polling agents within hours far ahead of counting of ballots.
This had a serious implication on the election results and allowed for any figure to be put in the signed sheets. At a conference which was held in 25th January, 2014, our former Ashanti Regional Chairman, Mr. F.F. Anto, reiterated a concern that buttresses the Christian Council of Ghana’s point that some polling agents signed the pink sheets before election results were announced.
What broke our heart as a group is that most of the polling agents who let us down were people directly selected by Hon.Kokofu.
It was also within the same constituency that one ballot box got missing at a coalition centre. Had it not been for the vigilance of some patriotic members of the party, we wouldn’t have been able to trace the missing ballot box. During that trail times when we needed Hon. Kokofu to lead us, he was nowhere to be found.
Few weeks ago, our MP was in church and visited some institutions to distribute items. It is good on his part to do this service but we believe, the impending primaries and the looming defeat has pushed him to embark on this almsgiving.
This brings us to the issue of accountability and we would want to know from our MP how he went about with the distribution of motorbikes and bicycles allocated to the constituency. Till date, we still can’t figure out how Hon. Kokofu has used the Common Fund, GETFund and NHIS FUND allocated to the Bantama Constituency.
On the ground, his own constituents are asking relevant questions and they now perceive him as a leader who can’t add more to the party. As a group, we don’t want to believe he has bought into the ‘lazy’ idea that once an NPP aspirant wins a parliamentary primary in the Ashanti Region, it becomes an automatic verdict that he would end up in parliament.
To us, Hon. Kokofu has been the worst performing legislator the Bantama Constituency has ever had since 1992. To us, his performance ratings is NEGATIVE FIFYTY (-50) and we would want to challenge to come out and tell the people of Bantama what he has been able to do for us during his time in office.
Our aim of this is Press Release, is to make way for genuine and serious minded members of the NPP to take over affairs and make the 2016 Elections a victory for the party.
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