The Youth Wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Tempane Constituency has asked for the immediate dismissal of the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area, Paul Abugri Azumah over what it described as his incompetence which could hinder the party’s chances to reclaim the Tempane parliamentary seat come 2024.
The group in a press statement signed by its convener, Anthony Sandow and 41 under listed petitioners said “the DCE, since his appointment has continuously worked not to improve the fortunes of the Party on whose government, he had the opportunity to serve the good people of Tempane as a whole.”
According to the group, he failed to show commitment to the course of the party in both material and political activism in the lead up to the 2020 general election; citing his failure to attend important party meetings and rallies organized by various groups in the constituency ahead of the polls.
“He did not campaign vigorously and refused to make definite political statements in favor of the Parliamentary candidate and the President on campaign grounds.” The statement read.
Speaking to A1 Radio on Monday, Organizer of the Group, Mr. Ayamba Jonathan, said “It is mind-blowing to realize that through the DCE, about 50 women who are not voters in the Tempane District were served the MASLOC loans meant for businesswomen in the Tempane District. This issue immensely cost us votes. This same issue of serving outsiders manifested in the scholarships and youth employment opportunities.”
Mr. Ayamba continued that “In 2017, he {Mr. Abugri} incited a section of the youth within the constituency to protest against the appointment of Hon. Asore Emmanuel Avoka as the DCE for the then Garu- Tempane District. This incident led to the burning of posters of His Excellency Nana Akuffo Addo and Hon. Joseph Dindiok Kpemka. Since his selfish action, it has dampened the party’s morale in that particular enclave where the needless protestation took place.”
Meanwhile, Paul Abugri Azumah who was appointed DCE for the area in 2018, in a separate interview on A1 Radio, has asked the public to disregard the claims of the group; saying its members were not known to the party.
“They are doing it out of selfish interest and should not be taken seriously, but I must add that I will be having an executive meeting with party executives this afternoon.” He stated.
Find the full statement by the youth group below:
TEMPANE CONSTITUENCY,
UPPER EAST REGION.
15TH DECEMBER, 2020.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA,
C/O THE CHIEF OF STAFF,
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT,
JUBILEE HOUSE,
ACCRA,
GHANA.
His Excellency,
PETITION FOR THE REMOVAL FROM OFFICE, THE DISTRICT CHIEF EXECUTIVE FOR TEMPANE DISTRICT – HON. PAUL ABUGRI AZUMAH
The Youth Wing of our great NPP Party in Tempane District and Constituency collectively and unanimously wish to petition His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo (President of the Republic of Ghana) to remove Honorable Paul Abugri Azumah from office with immediate effect in order to curtail further intended actions of the youth in the Tempane District which may be detrimental to the party’s chances to take back the Parliamentary seat from NDC in 2024.
The Youth has already carried out Post-elections assessment of the issues that led to our inability to retain the seat in the 2020 elections in the Tempane Constituency.
The bases of this petition is largely reflective of our main findings that, the DCE since his appointment has continuously worked not to improve the fortunes of the Party on whose government, he had the opportunity to serve the good people of Tempane as a whole.
The Petitioners have extensively consulted and held a general Constituency meeting and these allegations are leveled against the DCE.
His last two years in office, he exhibited poor relationship with NPP supporters thereby making them to lose faith with the government and the party as well.
Traditional leaders definitely have influenced over their subjects and traditional jurisdictions in our culture. The DCE’s working relationships with the chiefs has been very appalling which soured the affection of these leaders with the government.
He failed to show his contributions to the 2020 election activities in both material and political activism to enhance the fortunes of our great party; his failure to attend important party meetings and rallies organized by various groups in the election season buttresses the point made above.
He did not campaign vigorously and refused to make definite political statements in favor of the Parliamentary candidate and the President on campaign grounds
His alleged involvement in the elections of Assembly Members to favor the NDC has manifested in the recent District level elections since the elected assembly members on the side of the NDC had an overwhelming majority. Invariably, these elected assembly members campaigned for the NDC party and the electorates heeded to their call and voted massively for the NDC party in the constituency.
He is not accessible to the people in the District since he resides outside the District. This decision of his has obviously distanced him from the people and their concerns have been left unattended to by him. As it is common knowledge in the District that, Hon. Paul Abugri Azumah is not approachable by party sympathizers and people of the Tempane District.
In 2017, he incited a section of the Youth within the constituency to protest against the appointment of Honourable Asore Emmanuel Avoka as the DCE for then Garu – Tempane District. This incident led to the burning of posters of His Excellency Nana Akuffo Addo and Hon. Joseph Dindiok Kpemka. Since his selfish action, it has dampen the party’s morale in that particular enclave where the needless protestation took place.
Unfair distribution of opportunities such as Scholarships for tertiary students, youth employment, Common Fund disbursements among others. It is mind blowing to realize that through the DCE, about fifty (50) women who are not voters in the Tempane District were served the MASLOC loans meant for business women in the Tempane District. This issue immensely cost us votes. This same issue of serving outsiders manifested in the scholarships and youth employment opportunities.
Items and logistics meant for campaign that were under his watch were not released timely and wholly for the intended purpose. He failed to ensure with the party executives that logistics and items given by the party were effectively allocated to areas and individuals who needed them for smooth running of campaign in the constituency.
Lack of interest shown by him in defending and explaining government policies and projects in order to inform the general public in the District. That his unpatriotic conduct to the party gave room to the opponents to preach the gospel of lies to the constituents to diminish the chances of the party.
He was considered as an object of distractive politics and penetration against the party by the NDC for reasons best known to himself. This is traceable to the fact that he was spotted in a closed-door meeting with high profile NDC bigwigs at Bolgatanga. The agenda was to ensure that NPP does not win Tempane seat. It is interesting to notice that, the aftermath of the said “Nicodemus” meeting gave birth to the allegation that the Hon. DCE got his palms greased financially by the NDC to overturn the NPP’s victory mission in the constituency. Although he openly accepted that the NDC met him but he rejected the offer of money from the NDC bigwigs, we believe that he took the money because he did work for them. Evidence is that NPP woefully lost at Honorable DCE’s polling station.
In view of the above concerns raised by the youth of Tempane, we unanimously agreed and came into terms with the following conclusions;
The DCE continuous stay in the office will further derail the fortunes of the party going forward
The youth will cease to work for the party since leaders like him do not care about us.
The party’s survival in the Tempane District depends on eliminating greedy politicians like him from the political club of leaders in our great party.
The Youth has planned to initiate demonstrations including locking up his office if His Excellency fails to act after a week upon receiving this petition.
The Youth would be grateful to His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo only by relieving the DCE of his post with immediate effect to prevent a protest.
We wish the President well in his re-election and pledge to support his government to continue to transform Ghana and make it a better place for all.
Attached are names of petitioners.
Thank You.
Yours faithfully.
THROUGH;
THE CHAIRMAN,
NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY,
TEMPANE CONSTITUENCY.
THE CHAIRMAN,
NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY,
UPPER EAST REGION,
BOLGATANGA.
THE NATIONAL CHAIRMAN,
NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY,
ACCRA,
GHANA.
Details of petitioners
S/N
NAME
LOCALITY
POSITION
TEL
SIGN
- ANTHONY SANDOW
KUGRAGO
CONVENER
0248777184
- AYAMBA JONATHAN
TEMPANE
ORGANIZER
0550081322
- WILLIAMS TIJANI
BIMPELLA
SECRETARY
0246650742
- KONLAN PETER
NINSUM
MEMBER
0242255222
- KABRE FELIX
KPIKPIRA
MEMBER
0247463533
- ARABE TAHIRU
TEMPANE
MEMBER
0249034180
- WILLIAMS TIJANI
BIMPELLA
MEMBER
0246650742
- JACOB DINKO
TAMBALUG
MEMBER
0555685549
- AKOLOGO IBRAHIM
NYONSBARA
MEMBER
0249877815
- BUKARI PETER
TEMPANE
MEMBER
0243778916
11
BASHIRU BANSI HUSSEIN
WORIYANGA
MEMBER
0244791506
12
ABUGBILLA BENJAMIN
TEMPANE
MEMBER
0541413812
13
AWINI RICHMOND
NYONSBARA
MEMBER
0246212021
14
MUSAH INUSAH
BASYONDE
MEMBER
0544285909
15
ABANGA NICHOLAS
TEMPANE
MEMBER
0240774855
16
MATHEW TIJANI
NADIGRI
MEMBER
0242219393
17
MARTIN KONLAN
TAFAKUAN
MEMBER
0547050869
18
MBUGRI ABRAHAM
GELAKOLOG
MEMBER
19
YAKUBU SUMAILA ATIBILA
BASYONDE
MEMBER
0244847291
20
LAZARUS KUKA
KPINKPANYOUNG
MEMBER
21
KALIFA SIMON
GAGBIRI
MEMBER
0558487400
22
NUHU SAMARI
GAGBIRI
MEMBER
0242739305
23
AWINI MARCUS
YABRAGO
MEMBER
0551667497
24
ASAI JOSEPH
YABRAGO
MEMBER
0249384489
25
ABAMBILLA WISDOM
TEMPANE
MEMBER
0244703405
26
ABINDAW AHMED
TEMPANE
MEMBER
0240247786
27
SULE ISSAKA
BUSUM
MEMBER
0549442288
28
NASHIRU AWINI
NINTABUGSUG
MEMBER
0245756010
29
NUHU AKUNTAM
GAGBIR KUDUG
MEMBER
0541565316
30
APISIGI JONATHAN
AKUNDUORIN
MEMBER
0544760380
31
GAABA ALENKO
MEMBER
0559430005
32
AKAAMA EDMOND
PASNATENG
MEMBER
0542328149
33
AWINPIINI FRED
AKUNDUORIN
MEMBER
0541336692
34
ABUBAKAR DAUDA
WORIYANGA
MEMBER
0244170724
35
BUKARI MATHIAS
SABZUNDE
MEMBER
0248272189
36
YIDANABA TIMOTHY
SUMADUUR
MEMBER
0247902729
37
KOMBAT PHILIP
TAMBALUG
MEMBER
0553336869
38
DANIEL NABIRKA
KONKOMADA
MEMBER
0245330872
39
TINANZE ELIJAH
KONGO
MEMBER
0546932582
40
ABUGRI RAZAK
BUGURDABOOD
MEMBER
0541818868
41
AKURUG ISHMAEL
WIEMPIISI
MEMBER
0248695421
42
BACHELOR SANDOW
YEOGO
MEMBER
0545886338
Source: A1Radioonline.com|101.1MhZ|Ghana
