NEC will take action on Yendi polls once full report is received – NPP

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has assured that the National Executive Committee(NEC) will take action on the electoral violence that occurred in the Yendi constituency once it receives the full report from its regional representative, the Electoral Commission, and the Ghana Police Service.

It will be recalled that the counting process of the party’s parliamentary primaries in Yendi on January 27, 2024, was disrupted over stolen ballot allegations.

The fierce contest was between the incumbent Yendi MP, Farouk Aliu Mahama, and the Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Hajia Abibata Shanni Mahama Zakariah.

The General Secretary of the party, Justin Kodua Frimpong, addressing the issue assured that the party’s national executive committee will meet to deliberate once they receive the reports from the three stakeholders mentioned above.

“As I speak to you, we are yet to receive a formal report from our representative who went to the region, the Electoral Commission, and the Ghana Police Service, and when we get all these reports, the national executive committee will meet to deliberate on them and take a decision on Yendi. For whatever transpired there, once we get the report, the party will decide on it,” he noted in an interview monitored by The Ghana Report on Citi FM.

“Several things happened at Yendi so unless we have the full facts, it will be difficult to comment on any action,” he added.

Subsequently, some executives of the NPP, despite the violence and disruption, went ahead to declare the incumbent Yendi MP, Farouk Aliu Mahama, as the parliamentary candidate-elect, which the Electoral Commission disassociated itself from.

The NPP held its parliamentary primaries in 104 constituencies over the weekend and had 321 candidates contesting.

At the end of the election, twenty-eight incumbent MPs lost their seats. They cannot contest in the 2024 general elections.