ENTRENCHED POSITIONS KILLING BUNKPURUGU-YUNYOO NDC (PAGE 17, NOV 4)

The President of the Northern Chapter of the Bunkpurugu – Yunyoo Constituency branch of the Tertiary Institution Network (TEIN) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Isaac Binbintir, has expressed concern over the entrenched position some members of the network in the constituency had taken, which is destroying the party.
He said the branch Network was very much aware that in every party and constituency there were differences but the situation in Bunkpurugu was peculiar.
He said there had been confusion right from the polling stations up to the constituency executive elections and that it would be far from exaggeration “ if we should say that top ranking members in the constituency preferred to relate well with other members of the parties than their own”.
He was speaking at an emergency meeting of the branch at the Wa campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS).
The branch consists of students from the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions.
Mr Binbintir noted that there was currently tension between two groups of the branch network, where one group was alleged to have been denied nomination forms to contest the constituency elections while the other had gone to proclaim itself as a newly elected constituency executive.
“This unhealthy acrimony has the potential of killing the party in the constituency because those who are not the choice of the people have the tendency of leading the party and this can drive away a lot of supporters and sympathisers,” he said
He warned that the situation could result in the emergence of some personalities going as independent candidates as happened in 2000 when Mr J. Y. Labik stood on his own and won.
Mr Binbintir, who is a student on the Wa campus of the UDS, suggested that the structures within the party must be made to work and called on the national executive committee of the NDC to intervene in order to ensure sanity in the constituency.