The New Patriotic Party vetted Nii Lantey Bannerman and Mannaf Sowah, the two contenders aspiring to be the party’s parliamentary candidate for the Odododiodio constituency in the Greater Accra Region, on Tuesday, November 14, 2023.
The screening was held in the NPP’s new Greater Accra Regional Office in Teshie, ahead of the party’s next orphan constituency primaries on December 2, 2023.
However, supporters of the hopefuls battled at the regional office, though the reasons for the turmoil were not immediately clear.
The NPP’s General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong, then intervened to calm the supporters.
“We don’t want any chaos here. We have been able to run presidential primaries which were very difficult, but at the end of the day, we saw it was very peaceful… So please let us not bring any problems here. If you misbehave, I will disqualify the two of them. We want peace.”
“Do you want a candidate or want an MP? We don’t want any fighting here. If anyone misbehaves, the person will be arrested,” he warned.
Following the vetting process, there was balloting, in which Bannerman chose the first spot and Mannaf Sowah chose the second.
