As campaigning for the National Democratic Congress Parliamentary primaries for Southern Ghana enters its final week, stories of intrigues and vote buying are emerging from various constituencies.
The Agona East Constituency is one of the hotly contested seats where the Minister for Food and Agriculture Mr. Kwesi Ahwoi is battling with three other contestants.
Initially there were five contestants in all but Mr. Arhin, a nephew of the minister was persuaded to withdraw from the race. Unconfirmed reports are that the Agric Minister�s camp is offering each of the 250 delegates GHC1,000 cedis to vote for him.
This has generated uproar among NDC members in the constituency, majority of who have declared their intention to campaign against the party in the constituency if he bulldozes his way through.
At the commencement of the race, the constituency executive explained to the contestants that positioning on the ballot paper would be determined by submission of nomination papers.
The first to submit would be on top and the last to submit would be at the bottom. It appeared that Mr. Kwesi Ahwoi waited until the other three contestants submitted their nomination papers before he submitted his to the constituency executives.
Some concerned NDC members have raised eyebrows on the regional party executives attempt to exert influence on the constituency executives to print the ballot paper in a manner that will favour the Agric Minister who prefers to lie at the bottom.
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