Members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who aspire to be the party’s parliamentary candidates in the 2024 elections, have been cautioned to desist from courting disaffection for sitting parliamentarians.
Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the party’s General Secretary in a statement said all forms of campaigns aimed at causing disaffection for sitting MPs must should cease immediately.
He explained the party was yet to formally open the period for internal party campaign activities.
“It has come to the attention of the National executive committee of NDC that some individuals who intend to contest for the party’s 2024 Parliamentary primaries are going round constituencies with sitting MPs instigating hatred and malice against them. These individuals, amongst other things, have been alleging that some of our MPs have abandoned the constituencies and prefer to stay in Accra… The party wishes to inform its numerous members and sympathizers across the country that it has become necessary for all our 137 members of Parliament to be present in Parliament at all times to perform duties that are extremely of importance to the nation and their constituencies, hence their unavailability to be in the constituencies at regular times as used to be the case,” the statement indicated.
He warned members who are found to be campaigning outside the official yet-to-be-announced period “could face sanctions, including the possibility of being disqualified from contesting when the time comes.”
Read the full statement below
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
