About twenty members of the
opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) were on Wednesday afternoon chased out of
the party’s head office in Asylum Down for picketing at the place.
According to Citi News’
Franklin Badu Jnr, the incident occurred when the party members holding
placards in their bid to pressurize the NPP’s National Executive Committee
(NEC) to desist from approving a re-run of parliamentary primary in the Klottey
Korle constituency.
Lawyer Philip Addison, a defeated
parliamentary aspirant had gone to court to have a re-run of the parliamentary
primary in the constituency because he claims that the election he lost to one
Nii Nortey was a sham.
The NPP’s National Executive
Committee (NEC) is meeting to deliberate on the matter after it convinced Mr.
Addison to withdraw a suit he had filed in court.
According to Franklin Badu Jnr, while
the party members held placards, “about 15 men who are members of the party’s
private security group, the Invincible Forces, came from across the street with
clubs, plywood and other weapons and chased them away.”
“It was so scary that journalists
had to also run for cover,” he added.
Franklin reported that, in the
process, the windscreen of a Nissan Urvan bus was damaged.
“It is believed that the Nissan bus
was used to convey the party members to the NPP head office, and that
those with the placards are loyalists of Nii Noi Nortey, the NPP’s
candidate elect for Klottey Korle,” he added.
Franklin says the Police arrived at
the scene to quell the tension.
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Source: Citifmonline
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