The NPP’s parliamentary candidate for the Asante Akyem North constituency has expressed displeasure at Ernest Owusu Bempah’s supposed use of posters online with inscription ‘Owusu-Bempah nie, Nana Addo nie’ to court for votes since he is not an NPP candidate.
While Ernest Owusu Bempah is an independent parliamentary candidate contesting in the Asante Akyem North constituency in the Ashanti Region, he nonetheless is a member of the National Democratic Party (NDP) which has Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings as its presidential candidate but by this act Mr. Bempah seems to believe in the viability of Nana Addo more than Madam Konadu.
Seeing him as rival for the same seat he desires to capture, Andy Appiah-Kubi opined on Accra100.5 FM’s ‘Ghana Yensom’ show on Monday July 18,  that Mr. Bempah’s tactics of roping in Nana Addo as if he’s endorsed him was fraudulent, illegal and a deception meant to fool the public.
“So, if Owusu-Bempah can be part of Nana Addo’s campaign or be an NPP candidate, he must join the NPP. If he wants to be a candidate on the same ticket as Nana Addo, then that is belated, it is too late for him. There is a procedure for that – he needs to win the primary and stand on the NPP’s ticket before he can go with Nana Addo. So if you have not satisfied these requirements and you are campaigning on the back of Nana Addo, then you are using a back route. ... That is also against the law. Owusu-Bempah is no NPP member so he cannot carry the NPP flag†the aspiring MP declared.
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