The first Vice Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region, Captain (Rtd), John Kwame Jabari, has denied claims that the party planned to remove the MP for Asawase Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka from office.
According to him, it is not the responsibility of the party to prohibit qualified candidates from running for office.
“We thought Asawase primary was going to be close, but the golden boy of Asawase, Muntaka, came out victorious once again. We couldn’t have sided with any of them; we wanted the elections to be free and fair, and that is exactly what happened. The former national chairman of the party had a challenger; our flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, also contested.
“So if someone wants to contest an MP, what can we do about it? Anyone who wanted to contest and passed the rules and regulations was allowed, and that was something for the delegates to decide. I can’t say that as a region, we masterminded and wanted him to lose, that is not possible, and we won’t allow that. As a region, there was no intention of that,” Captain (Rtd) John Kwame Jabari stated.
Masawudu Mubarick challenged Muntaka in the parliamentary election for the Asawase seat.
Muntaka claims that some members of the party’s leadership have been trying to remove him from Parliament for some time.
A few days after the party’s primary elections, Mohammed Muntaka told reporters that the recent shift in the Minority Leadership in Parliament was part of the larger strategy.
“I can tell you, it was part of the strategy to get me out. No political person will say that wasn’t part of the strategy to get me out. Avedzi wasn’t contesting again, Haruna didn’t have any contenders, and I was the only one who had a contender, so to have done that at that time was part of the strategy to get me out. But like I keep saying, God is not their village chief; God doesn’t hate people because you hate them.” Muntaka said
