Violent demonstrations erupted at the party office of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) over the nomination of Hajia Rashida Mahama as District Chief Executive (DCE) of Chereponi.
After her nomination as DCE, some NPP supporters rejected the idea of her as DCE saying, “she doesn’t deserve to be in that position because she only joined the party in 2016 and do not understand why the President gave her that position.”
According to Happy98.9FM’s/e.TVGhana’s North Eastern Regional correspondent Mohammed Tanko, these rioting youth after the DCE’s nomination stormed the party office to burn their pavilions “and came back shouting and chanting war songs. They moved to the chairman’s residence, assaulted people over there and tried to burn down two cars belonging to the chairman.”
Updating audience and listeners of the Happy Morning Show hosted by Samuel Eshun Mohammed Tanko indicated that the police prevented the angry youth from burning the cars “and have since then arrested 12 suspects.”
Although calm has returned to the community, the Nasara coordinator has expressed disappointment over the destruction and urged the youth to find a proper way of channelling their displeasure.
Background
Some supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Chereponi and East Mamprusi Districts of the North East Region have rejected the nomination of Hajia Rashida Mahama and Madam Zuweratu Mada Nashiru as District Chief Executives, respectively.
Some of the supporters in Chereponi went on rampage by vandalising party properties to express their rejection of the President’s decision “to impose on them a stranger who only joined the party in 2016”.
The aggrieved members went on a rampage as soon the official list of the MMDCES nominees was unveiled Sunday in Accra by the Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development Minister, Dan Botwe.