The Upper East Regional Communication Director of the New Patriotic Party, Peter Ayamga Ayinbisa has clapped back at individuals, who are demanding an apology from the current executives of the party for its loss in the region.
According to Mr. Ayinbisa, the loss is collective and cannot be blamed on the executives alone.
The NPP has no single seat in the region after it lost the Binduri seat, which was the only seat held by the party prior to the 2024 elections.
This has led to some individuals including a one-time chairmanship aspirant and Founder of the Rapid Response Unit for DMB, Filson Awankua calling for the regional executives to take responsibility for the defeat and, at least, apologize to party supporters.
But speaking Thursday on the State of Our Nation, Mr. Ayinbisa challenged Mr. Awankua to show evidence of winning his own polling station before calling out the executives.
“This is somebody, who carries himself as a huge person, a leading member of the party, your own polling station, you could not win it. Then you are pointing fingers at people, so you want the regional executive to come to your polling station and win the seat of that polling station for you?”
“Leadership by example, you want to become regional chairman, you should have won your polling station, then you come and point fingers at others. You could not carry along the people within your polling station.”
According to him, Mr. Awankua was acting as though he was a parallel chairman and in ways that caused disaffection for the party in the area.
“Even his own polling station, there were people who were not happy because of how some of his guys and himself, carried themselves. The people were not happy about that. He was at a point trying to look like he’s a co-chairman or carry himself as another regional chairman. In NPP, we don’t operate parallel leadership.”
He also took on Awankua for calling out the Regional Secretary and Regional Organizer for contesting the parliamentary elections.
The former Regional Chairman aspirant had criticized the decision of the two executives to run for parliamentary seats while holding their executive positions, suggesting that their actions contributed to the party’s defeat.
But Ayinbisa defended the actions of the two, saying that they did not infringe the party’s constitution by their decision to pursue their parliamentary ambitions while holding offices.
