Politics of Monday, 22 June 2020Source: Class FM'Unprecedented vote-buying, opulence at NPP primaries alarming' – NDCNDC Communications Officer, Sammy GyamfiThe level of vote-buying and opulence that were on display at the governing New Patriotic Party’s parliamentary primaries on Saturday, 20 June 2020 were “alarming” and “unprecedented”, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has observed. At its Weekly Press Briefing on Monday, 22 June 2020, the biggest opposition party’s National Communication Officer, Mr Sammy Gyamfi, said: “The alarming level of vote-buying and opulence we saw in the NPP this time around is unprecedented”. The party also condemned the NPP’s disregard for COVID-19 safety protocols during the primaries. Mr Titus-Glover polled 522 votes to beat Mr Ashitey Armah, who got 233 votes out of a total ballot of 755. Mr Ashitey Armah said although he lost, “I’m still a happy person because it is not easy to come up against a whole party machinery in an election”.

Source: GhanaWeb June 22, 2020 13:18 UTC