NDC Sacks Two Constituency Executives In Lawra

Two Constituency Executives in the Lawra Constituency of the Upper West Region have been sacked from the party for endorsing nomination forms of the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area Samson Abu who is now contesting the seat as an independent candidate. In a release signed by Joshua Lotaa the constituency Chairman, it disclosed that the constituency Women Organizer Hajia Bintu Alhassan and the Constituency Communications Officer Peter Assibi Kaayir, cease to be members of the NDC. According to him, both officers have breached the party’s constitution and therefore should desist from holding themselves as either executives or members of the NDC demanding that they immediately return on all party property in their possession. Samson Abu who lost during the NDC constituency primary last year it would be recalled, was among 23 members who were sacked from the party for filing to contest the December 7 polls as independent parliamentary candidates. Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia who is the General Secretary of the NDC in a statement, indicated that all 23 including the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lawra Samson Abu of breached articles 8(d,f); 45( a,b,c &e) and 46(10) of the party’s constitution. “The affected persons by their conduct and on their own volition have ceased to be members of the party”