Wa East NDC supports DCE (PAGE 13, JAN 31, 2011)

Story: George Folley, Wa

The Wa East constituency executive of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has observed that there is no way the party can reclaim the Wa East constituency seat without Mr Ameen Salifu, the District Chief Executive of the area.
According to the party, this is due to the fact that Mr Ameen, who was the party’s parliamentary candidate in the 2008 election, had sacrificed a lot and been marketed, tried and tested enough to lead the NDC to victory in 2012.
This was contained in a statement issued and signed by the constituency executive of the party at Funsi, the district capital. The executive include the Chairman, Asuma Abdul Karim Braimah; Secretary, Issahaque Munawaru; Organiser, Iddrisu Kapori; Youth Organiser, Bawa Walma; Treasurer, Seidu Baba and the Women’s Organiser, Habiba Mahama.
The executive said any individual, group or organisations that wanted to distract the attention of the DCE to make him lose focus on his developmental agenda of building a better Wa East to serve their own parochial interest would definitely fail.
It said those who were discrediting the DCE were doing so out of desperation, as they all vied for the position and lost.
It mentioned three personalities — Yahaya Yakubu, the NDC Regional Propaganda Secretary, Issahaku Bawa Sumani, a former Constituency Vice Chairman of the party, and Mohammed Saani, a member of the expanded Constituency Executive — as allegedly behind the plot.
“This our great party and government cannot accommodate the syndrome of pull-him-down, so give us a break,” the statement said.
The executive advised the three personalities not to allow themselves to be used by certain persons to achieve their personal interest.
It stated that the Wa East District, which was created about four years ago, had not seen any accelerated development till the last two years when Mr Ameen took over as the DCE.
It advised all those with grievances to channel them through the party’s tried and tested mechanisms of conflict resolution.