Member of Parliament (MP) for Afigya Kwabre North, Collins Adomako Mensah has rebuked the Presidential aspirants in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) whose billboards have been mounted in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.
The NPP has warned the aspirants to halt their campaigns till when the party will give permission for its members to engage in internal contests.
A statement by the NPP leadership ahead of the party's delegates conference this Saturday read; “Prior to and during the conference from December 18 to 20, 2021, no billboards and or signboards, banners or any kind of outdoor signage with the images and or names of individual members, with or without the consent of the individual, shall be acceptable. This applies to the area within the Greater Kumasi Metropolis. All such displays, if put up already, should be removed.”
"Any person, with or without his or her consent, whose image is flaunted on any advocacy material and who does not take active steps to desist from any public display of aspiration for a position within the precincts of Greater Kumasi runs a higher risk of disqualification in the event nominations are declared open."
But the directive of the leadership has fallen on deaf ears as billboards of some of the aspirants have crowded Kumasi.
Hon. Collins Adomako-Mensah, speaking on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo'', scolded the aspirants saying ''Billboards don't win election. If billboards win election, we would have defeated the NDC in 2016. Billboards don't win election. So, if you are a potential aspirant and you feel, by your billboard, you will win the election; then you are just killing yourself''.
He, therefore, is urging them to comply with the party's directive.
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