News Desk Report
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Polling Station Executives of the Tema West Constituency is calling for the withdrawal of the candidature of Hon. Kingsley Carlos Ahenkorah as the party’s Parliamentary Candidate for the up-coming national parliamentary elections to be held in December 7, 2020.
According to them, Carlos Ahenkorah has caused so many problems by his act of visiting Registration centers whiles he had been tested positive for COVID-19 and being advised to isolate himself.
In a letter written to the General Secretary of the NPP and copied to the Regional Chairman, the Polling Station Executives said his action constitute an act of “irresponsibility and recklessness on his part. Such a conduct is not only irresponsible but also criminal as he knew that he had tested positive.”
To them, Carlos Ahenkorah’s act will make it difficult for them to market him in the constituency to maintain the seat in parliament.
“Clearly the Hounorable did not obey the COVID-19 protocols and totally disregard the Presidential Directives on COVID-19,” they stated, adding that Hon Kingsley Carlos Ahenkorah has not shown any leadership but rather, put the NPP’s name into disrepute and public ridicule.
“We are therefore calling for his withdrawal as our party candidate because his conduct is in breach of the party’s constitution as captured in Article 4 Clause 7, 1 (g) which state that a member shall not bring the name of the party into disrepute or public ridicule.”
The polling station executives are not the only group making such demands on the party leadership.
Pressure Group OccupyGhana has also called for the prosecution and withdrawal of the candidature of the Tema West MP, Carlos Ahenkorah after expressing disappointment in his conduct.
“By this, he put his fellow citizens at such high risk of contracting the coronavirus disease. As a minister of state of a government that is battling hard against this pandemic, he has shown a remarkable lack of good sense on the social and physical distancing that is required by law, on the pain of criminal prosecution. His actions show gross disrespect to the pronouncements of the President concerning keeping the populace safe, and his behaviour makes a mockery of any enactments government has made in the fight against the coronavirus,” OccupyGhana said in a press statement, Friday.
According to the group, his action is worrying “especially in the wake of the political primaries, which in the main, also ignored the law and common sense of social and physical distancing, and the obvious struggle of the Electoral Commission to enforce these rules in the ongoing voter registration.
“We fear that the combination of these events and the irresponsible conduct of government officials such as Mr Ahenkorah will lead to an increase in infections and possibly, deaths.”
