The Nhyiaeso Constituency Executive Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti region has unanimously rejected the report of the Committee of Enquiry which supposedly probed the poor performance of the party in region, in the December 2024 general elections.
In a letter, dated 7 March this year, signed by Michael Essel-Mills Nhyiaeso, the NPP Constituency Secretary, and addressed to Kyei Mensah Bonsu’s Committee of Enquiry set up by the Regional Chairman, the constituency executives lampooned that, “The Constituency Executives Committee upon reviewing the report and to be specific the portion that captures issues related to the Nhyiaeso Constituency, unanimously disagrees with the report’s conclusions, whether the conclusions reached were through perception or in reality.”
Also, the executives categorically disclosed that none of the constituency executives, council of elders and patrons, electoral area coordinators, and polling station executives has admitted
ever meeting with any of the field officers who carried out the exercise in the constituency.
The letter, responding to the purported findings of the regional executive committee on why the NPP did not perform well in the Ashanti region intimated that, the impression being created that the parliamentary candidate was inaccessible even though perceived and speculative as admitted “by your report, we respond that, such conclusion is factually inaccurate. To be precise, the member of parliament has been very visible and overwhelmingly accessible, a fact that cannot be denied.”
A little validation exercise across the constituency especially, Santasi (market), Atasomanso
(market), Daban, Ahodwo, Patasi and other suburbs within the constituency, this stament said could confirm that Steka, as the MP is fondly referred is the most accessible MP. Even the gate to his house does not have a lock.
Read excerpts of the statement: “Lastly, the parliamentary candidate was seen working with a different campaign team outside the main constituent executives” (emphatic statement) is at variance with the reality on the ground.”
“In arriving at such bold and an emphatic conclusion, the team could have validated it by engaging with those that qualifies to be part of the campaign team, but to rely on individuals considered to be outsiders as far as the composition of the campaign is concerned is rather unfortunate and vey redundant. To be forthright, nothing like that ever happened during the campaign period prior to the elections.”
Aside the spirited defence by the constituency executive, independent findings by the New Crusading GUIDE revealed that while the entire Ashanti region had about 65% votes, Nhyiaeso Constituency had over 71% in the 2024 general elections, making it one of the few constituencies that perform very well in the elections.
The way those who purported conducted the interviews are shifting the goal-post that they rather went to the Santasi market and Santasi roundabout, and that they spoke to the 2nd Vice, who blocked the from conducting the research, when all the people have denied ever speaking to anyone; lends credence to speculations in the constituency that no research was conducted in the constituency.
A constituent, more so, told this paper that Dr. Stephen Amoah’s achievements in the constituency are unprecedented in the political history of the constituency.
