The rank and file of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Savelugu Constituency in the Northern Region are completely in disarray and sharply divided after the decisive victory of Hajia Fatahiya Abdul Aziz, the Member of Parliament elect for the constituency on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
There have been accusations and counter-accusations among the constituency executives of the NDC since their inevitable parliamentary defeat in the just ended December 7, general elections. The NPP’s Hajia Fatahiya Abdul Aziz secured a landslide victory after she obtained 27,450 votes and the incumbent NDC MP, Hon Abdulai Jacob Iddriss, had 24,877 votes.
Consequently, some constituency executives and supporters of the party have accused the constituency chairman, Alhaji Mohammed Sasa, of causing the defeat of the NDC MP while the chairman has also mounted a spirited defense of his efforts prior to the polls to retain the seat which proved futile eventually.
The Chairman in an interview on Tamale based Zaa Television on Monday (December 16) monitored by THE CUSTODIAN described the accusations were baseless and unfounded. He also pointed accusing fingers at some elements within the constituency whom he asserted were allegedly behind the accusations for their personal political ambitions.
“They [my detractors] are not even worried about our defeat but rather what they have done is to instigate the youth to agitate for our removal as executives so that they will go and lobby for positions. Already some of them have gone to Accra and they have been chased back” he stated.
Alhaji Sasa indicated that some people decided not to recognize him as the chairman of the party and did things without consulting him in the run-up to the polls.
When quizzed about a seeming frosty relationship between him and the MP over the period, Chairman Sasa responded in the affirmative that there was never a moment when the lawmaker will sit with him to take decisions in the interest of the party in the constituency.
He emphasized, “There was no consultation in the sense that if not when I want to talk with him [MP] or we’re going somewhere and I call to tell him, but there was never any time that as a chairman and an MP we would sit to deliberate about what to do pertaining to the activities of the party, there was never that opportunity”.
